SanD primes and numbers
Classical Analysis and ODEs
2020-03-04 v3 Number Theory
Abstract
We define S(um)anD(ifference) numbers as ordered pairs such that the digital-sum We consider both the decimal and the binary case. If both and are prime numbers, we refer to SanD {\em primes}. We show that the number of (decimal-based) SanD numbers less than grows as where while the number of SanD primes less than grows as where Due to the quasi-fractal nature of the digital-sum function, convergence is both slow and erratic compared to twin primes, which, apart from the constant, have the same leading asymptotics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1904.03573,
title = {SanD primes and numbers},
author = {Freeman J. Dyson and Norman E. Frankel and Anthony J. Guttmann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.03573},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
22 pages, 2 figures. Revised version corrects one proof and fixes some typos