There Are Infinitely Many Mersenne Primes

This paper explores Mersenne primes of the form 2p-1 where, p is a prime. By extension, the paper also explores Perfect numbers. An insight into these numbers is explored using novel methods that involve the trigonometric functions with integer factorable arguments. Rational functions play a part in the behavior of many functions including regular primes, Mersenne Primes, and Perfect numbers. The paper first determines relationships for primes, and then procedes to show how Perfect number relations can be derived from trigonometric relations. The relationships of trigomentric functions involving the sum of divisors, provide a novel approach to prove that that the analytic structure of cot(T), when split into classes such as Mersenne and non-Mersenne classes, using the Bernoulli framework, forces a coupling between the two infinite subsets of integers and and primes of a selected class.