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On the asymptotic distinct prime partitions of integers

Number Theory 2021-05-11 v3 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We discuss Q(n)Q(n), the number of ways a given integer nn may be written as a sum of distinct primes, and study its asymptotic form Qas(n)Q_{as}(n) valid in the limit nn\to\infty. We obtain Qas(n)Q_{as}(n) by Laplace inverting the fermionic partition function of primes, in number theory called the generating function of the distinct prime partitions, in the saddle-point approximation. We find that our result of Qas(n)Q_{as}(n), which includes two higher-order corrections to the leading term in its exponent and a pre-exponential correction factor, approximates the exact Q(n)Q(n) far better than its simple leading-order exponential form given so far in the literature.

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@article{arxiv.1904.02776,
  title  = {On the asymptotic distinct prime partitions of integers},
  author = {M. V. N. Murthy and M. Brack and R. K. Bhaduri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.02776},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

10 pages, 3 figures; v2: small editorial changes, correction of misprints v3: revised version, added new material by V. Kotesovec that confirms our conclusions