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Asymptotics for Magic Squares of Primes

Number Theory 2012-07-18 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

Based on the work of Green, Tao and Ziegler, we give asymptotics when NN \to \infty for the number of n×nn \times n magic squares with their entries being prime numbers in [0,N][0,N]. For every n3n \ge 3 we give appropriate systems of linear forms (or equivalently basis) describing all n×nn \times n magic squares with integer entries and we calculate the complexity of these systems in the Green and Tao sense. We compute the precise asymptotics for the cases n=3n=3 (complexity 3) and n=4n=4 (complexity 1), and the given algorithm works for n5n \ge 5 (complexity 1). Finally, we show that the asymptotics are exactly the same if we impose that all the entries of the magic squares have to be different.

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@article{arxiv.1207.3936,
  title  = {Asymptotics for Magic Squares of Primes},
  author = {Carlos Vinuesa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.3936},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

34 pages, 6 figures

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