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Goldbach's like conjectures arising from arithmetic progressions whose first two terms are primes

Number Theory 2019-01-24 v1

Abstract

For two odd primes pp and qq such that p<qp<q, let A(p,q):=(ak)k=1A(p,q):=(a_k)_{k=1}^{\infty} be the arithmetic progression whose kkth term is given by ak=(k1)(qp)+pa_k=(k-1)(q-p)+p (i.e., with a1=pa_1=p and a2=qa_2=q). Here we conjecture that for every positive integer a>1a>1 there exist a positive integer nn and two odd primes pp and qq such that aa can be expressed as a sum of the first 2n2n terms of the arithmetic progression A(p,q)A(p,q). Notice that in the case of even aa, this conjecture immediately follows from Goldbach's conjecture. We also propose the analogous conjecture for odd positive integers a>1a>1 as well as some related Goldbach's like conjectures arising from the previously mentioned arithmetic progressions.

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@article{arxiv.1901.07882,
  title  = {Goldbach's like conjectures arising from arithmetic progressions whose first two terms are primes},
  author = {Romeo Meštrović},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.07882},
  year   = {2019}
}

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