Are there infinite number of Mersenne Primes?

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Posted by: kurtulmehtap
on: February 4th, 2015
Conjecture   A Mersenne prime is a Mersenne number \[ M_n  = 2^p  - 1 \] that is prime.

Are there infinite number of Mersenne Primes?