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Is it true that there are infinitely many $n$'s s.t. $3^{n}+2$ is prime? Or more generally, for given two coprime natural numbers $a, b$, are there infinitely many $n$'s s.t. $a^{n}+b$ is prime?

The second sentence is false since $3^{n}+1$ is always even number, but I can't say anything about $3^{n}+2$.

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    For the most part the answer is "we don't know yet." Another one that is of interest is (of course) $2^p-1$, and all we have is a list of nearly fifty examples.2017-01-04

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