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Quantitative results of the Romanov type representation functions

Number Theory 2023-04-14 v4

Abstract

For α>0\alpha >0, let A={a1<a2<a3<}\mathscr{A}=\{ a_1<a_2<a_3<\cdots\} and L={1,2,3,}(not necessarily different)\mathscr{L}=\{ \ell_1, \ell_2, \ell_3,\cdots\} \quad \text{(not~necessarily~different)} be two sequences of positive integers with A(m)>(logm)α\mathscr{A}(m)>(\log m)^\alpha for infinitely many positive integers mm and m<0.9loglogm\ell_m<0.9\log\log m for sufficiently integers mm. Suppose further that (i,ai)=1(\ell_i,a_i)=1 for all ii. For any nn, let fA,L(n)f_{\mathscr{A},\mathscr{L}}(n) be the number of the available representations listed below in=p+ai(1iA(n)),\ell_in=p+a_i \quad \left(1\le i\le \mathscr{A}(n)\right), where pp is a prime number. It is proved that lim supnfA,L(n)loglogn>0,\limsup_{n\to \infty } \frac{f_{\mathscr{A},\mathscr{L}}(n)}{\log\log n}>0, which covers an old result of Erd\H os in 1950 by taking ai=2ia_i=2^i and i=1\ell_i=1. One key ingredient in the argument is a technical lemma established here which illustrates how to pick out the admissible parts of an arbitrarily given set of distinct linear functions. The proof then reduces to the verifications of a hypothesis involving well--distributed sets introduced by Maynard, which of course would be the other key ingredient in the argument.

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@article{arxiv.2204.12287,
  title  = {Quantitative results of the Romanov type representation functions},
  author = {Yong-Gao Chen and Yuchen Ding},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.12287},
  year   = {2023}
}