On the shortest weakly prime-additive numbers.

Text A positive integer n is called weakly prime-additive if n has at least two distinct prime divisors and there exist distinct prime divisors p 1 , … , p t of n and positive integers α 1 , … , α t such that n = p 1 α 1 + ⋯ + p t α t . It is clear that t ≥ 3 . In 1992, Erdős and Hegyvári proved that, for any prime p , there exist infinitely many weakly prime-additive numbers with t = 3 which are divisible by p . In this paper, we prove that, for any positive integer m , there exist infinitely many weakly prime-additive numbers with t = 3 which are divisible by m if and only if 8 ∤ m . We also present some related results and pose several problems for further research. Video For a video summary of this paper, please visit https://youtu.be/WC_VRFtY07c . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]