Right-angled triangles with almost prime hypotenuse
Number Theory
2024-06-14 v2
Abstract
The sequence OEIS A281505 consists of distinct odd legs in right triangles with integer sides and prime hypotenuse. In this paper, we count the closely related quantity of even legs with almost prime hypotenuse. More precisely, we obtain the correct order of magnitude upper and lower bounds for the set of distinct even legs with 5-almost prime hypotenuse. This is a strong version of the appropriate analogy to a conjecture of Chow and Pomerance (stated there for prime hypotenuse).
Cite
@article{arxiv.2401.16334,
title = {Right-angled triangles with almost prime hypotenuse},
author = {Cihan Sabuncu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.16334},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
15 pages. Referee comments incorporated. To appear in Research in Number Theory