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On the number of weakly prime-additive numbers

Authors :
Yong-Gao Chen
Jin-Hui Fang
Source :
Acta Mathematica Hungarica. 160:444-452
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019.

Abstract

A positive integer n is called weakly prime-additive if n has at least two distinct prime divisors and there exist distinct prime divisors $$p_{1},\ldots, p_{t}$$ of n and positive integers $$\alpha_{1}, \ldots , \alpha_{t}$$ such that $$n = p_{1}^{\alpha_{1}}+ \cdots + p_{t}^{\alpha_{t}}$$. Erdős and Hegyvari [2] proved that, for any prime p, there exists a weakly prime-additive number which is divisible by p. Recently, Fang and Chen [3] proved that for any given positive integer m, there are infinitely many weakly prime-additive numbers which are divisible bym with t = 3 if and only if $$8 \nmid m$$. In this paper, we prove that for any given positive integer m, the number of weakly prime-additive numbers which are divisible by m and less than x is larger than $${\rm exp}(c({\rm log log} x)^{2}/ {\rm log log log} x)$$ for all sufficiently large x, where c is a positive absolute constant. The constant c depends on the result on the least prime number in an arithmetic progression.

Details

ISSN :
15882632 and 02365294
Volume :
160
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Acta Mathematica Hungarica
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........09c95360095cdb509cfc3e76f418ce76