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A characterization of prime $v$-palindromes

Number Theory 2023-07-04 v1

Abstract

An integer n1n\geq 1 is a vv-palindrome if it is not a multiple of 1010, nor a decimal palindrome, and such that the sum of the prime factors and corresponding exponents larger than 11 in the prime factorization of nn is equal to that of the integer formed by reversing the decimal digits of nn. For example, if we take 198 and its reversal 891, their prime factorizations are 198=23211198 = 2\cdot 3^2\cdot 11 and 891=3411891 = 3^4\cdot 11 respectively, and summing the numbers appearing in each factorization both give 18. This means that 198198 and 891891 are vv-palindromes. We establish a characterization of prime vv-palindromes: they are precisely the larger of twin prime pairs of the form (510m3,510m1)(5 \cdot 10^m - 3, 5 \cdot 10^m - 1), and thus standard conjectures on the distribution of twin primes imply that there are only finitely many prime vv-palindromes.

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@article{arxiv.2307.00770,
  title  = {A characterization of prime $v$-palindromes},
  author = {Muhammet Boran and Garam Choi and Steven J. Miller and Jesse Purice and Daniel Tsai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.00770},
  year   = {2023}
}

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