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Power-free palindromes and reversed primes

Number Theory 2025-11-24 v5

Abstract

We prove new results related to the digital reverse n\overleftarrow{n} of a positive integer nn in a fixed base bb. First we show that for b26000b\geq 26000, there exists infinitely many primes pp such that p\overleftarrow{p} is square-free. Further, we show that for b2b\geq 2 there are infinitely many palindromes (with n=nn=\overleftarrow{n}) that are cube-free. We also give asymptotic expressions for the counting functions corresponding to these results. The main tools we use are recent bounds from the literature on reversed primes and palindromes in arithmetic progressions.

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@article{arxiv.2503.21136,
  title  = {Power-free palindromes and reversed primes},
  author = {Shashi Chourasiya and Daniel R. Johnston},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.21136},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

14 pages, 1 figure, Minor corrections to Theorem 1.5 and Lemma 2.1