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Constrained ternary integers

Number Theory 2021-02-04 v2

Abstract

An integer nn is said to be ternary if it is composed of three distinct odd primes. In this paper, we asymptotically count the number of ternary integers nxn \leq x with the constituent primes satisfying various constraints. We apply our results to the study of the simplest class of (inverse) cyclotomic polynomials that can have coefficients that are greater than 1 in absolute value, namely to the nthn^{th} (inverse) cyclotomic polynomials with ternary nn. We show, for example, that the corrected Sister Beiter conjecture is true for a fraction 0.925\ge 0.925 of ternary integers.

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@article{arxiv.1710.08403,
  title  = {Constrained ternary integers},
  author = {Florian Luca and Pieter Moree and Robert Osburn and Sumaia Saad Eddin and Alisa Sedunova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.08403},
  year   = {2021}
}

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21 pages, to appear in International Journal of Number Theory

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