Find all primes such that, \(\large \color{black}{\begin{align} y^2-4\pmod x\equiv 0\quad \text{and}\hspace{.33em}\\~\\ x^2-1\pmod y\equiv 0 \quad \text{where} \quad \{x,y\}\in\mathbb{P}\hspace{.33em}\\~\\ \end{align}}\)
well the problem wants all of prime pairs like \((x,y)\) such that \(x|y^2-4\) and \(y|x^2-1\)
Here are exhaustive brute force results for 2<x,y<1000, but have no idea where to go from here (5,3),(15,7)
first suppose that \(x \le y\), since \(y|(x-1)(x+1)\) and \(y>x-1\) it follows that \(y|x+1\) and so \(y=x+1\), there is only one pair of consecutive primes, so we get from here one solution and that is \((x,y)=(2,3)\)
now going with \(x>y\) Oh, I'm late, I must go somewhere, I'll finish this later ;-))
@mathmate \(\large \color{black}{ (5,3) \normalsize\text{ is a valid pair but not } \hspace{.33em}\\~\\ (15,7) \normalsize\text{ as } \large 15 \normalsize\text{ is composite. }\hspace{.33em}\\~\\ }\)
mukushla's start is nice but, \(\large \color{black}{\begin{align} 3^2-4\pmod 2\cancel{\equiv} 0\hspace{.33em}\\~\\ \end{align}}\) for the pair of \(\large (2,3)\)
Oops! Thank you @mathmath333
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