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We show that Wilson's theorem as well as the Wilson quotient can be described by supercongruences modulo any higher prime power involving terms of power sums of Fermat quotients. The new approach uses Bell polynomials and Newton's…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Bernd C. Kellner

The Bergelson-Leibman theorem states that if P_1, ..., P_k are polynomials with integer coefficients, then any subset of the integers of positive upper density contains a polynomial configuration x+P_1(m), ..., x+P_k(m), where x,m are…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-14 Thai Hoang Le , Julia Wolf

Given a prime p and a positive integer m satisfying a certain inequality, the converse of Wolstenholme's Theorem is shown to hold for the product mp^k where k is any positive integer, generalizing a result by Helou and Terjanian.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-18 Saud Hussein

In this paper, we prove the twin prime conjecture showing that \begin{align} \sum \limits_{\substack{p\leq x\\p,p+2\in \mathbb{P}}}1\geq (1+o(1))\frac{x}{2\mathcal{C}\log^2 x}\nonumber \end{align} where $\mathcal{C}:=\mathcal{C}(2)>0$ fixed…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Theophilus Agama

We have primarily obtained three results on numbers of the form $p + 2^k$. Firstly, we have constructed many arithmetic progressions, each of which does not contain numbers of the form $p + 2^k$, disproving a conjecture by Erd\H{o}s as Chen…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Yuda Chen , Xiangjun Dai , Huixi Li

We prove some theorems which give sufficient conditions for the existence of prime numbers among the terms of a sequence which has pairwise relatively prime terms.

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2015-01-14 Konstantinos N. Gaitanas

We study the series s(n,x) which is the sum for k from 1 to n of the square of the sine of the product x Gamma(k)/k, where x is a variable. By Wilson's theorem we show that the integer part of s(n,x) for x = Pi/2 is the number of primes…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Alain Connes

We show that there are four possibilities for the product of all elements in the multiplicative group of a quotient of the ring of integers in a number field, and give precise conditions for each of the possibilities to occur. This…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-01-09 Chandan Singh Dalawat

By Maynard's theorem and the subsequent improvements by the Polymath Project, there exists a positive integer $b\leq 246$ such that there are infinitely many primes $p$ such that $p+b$ is also prime. Let $P_1,...,P_t\in \mathbb{Z}[y]$ with…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Andrew Lott , Nagendar Reddy Ponagandla

Legendre's conjecture states that there is a prime number between n^2 and (n+1)^2 for every positive integer n. We consider the following question : for all integer n>1 and a fixed integer k<=n does there exist a prime number such that kn <…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2009-01-11 Shiva Kintali

In 1845, Bertrand conjectured that twice any prime strictly exceeds the next prime. Tchebichef proved Bertrand's postulate in 1850. In 1934, Ishikawa proved a stronger result: the sum of any two consecutive primes strictly exceeds the next…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-14 Joel E. Cohen

We take the pre-sieved set to be all natural numbers $N=\{1,2,3,\dots\}$ with a sieve system:single sieve,double sieve,.... With single sieve, i.e. , remove out the multiple of a prime, we derive all the primes. With double sieve, i.e. ,…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2019-11-26 Guangchang Dong

We prove the Goldbach Conjecture using p-adic analysis and algebraic methods, requiring no knowledge of prime gaps or distribution by showing counterexamples exist if and only if certain polynomials have integer solutions. Assuming, for the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Jason R. South

We prove a recent conjecture due to Deutsch, Sagan, and Wilson stating that the finite sequence obtained from the first p central trinomial coefficients modulo p by replacing nonzero terms by 1's is palindromic, for any prime number p > 3.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jean-Paul Allouche

Let $k \ge 2$ and $s$ be positive integers, and let $n$ be a large positive integer subject to certain local conditions. We prove that if $s \ge k^2+k+1$ and $\theta > 31/40$, then $n$ can be expressed as a sum $p_1^k + \dots + p_s^k$,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-07-31 Angel Kumchev , Huafeng Liu

We establish an analogue of the Goldbach conjecture for Laurent polynomials with positive integer coefficients.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Sophia Liao , Harold Polo

In this note, we give an alternative proof of the following result. Let p, q >= 2 be two multiplicatively independent integers. If an infinite set of integers is both p- and q-recognizable, then it is syndetic. Notice that this result is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-06 M. Rigo , L. Waxweiler

We give a simple matrix-based proof of congruence equations modulo a prime $p$ involving sums of binomial coefficients appearing in Pascal's triangle. These equations can be used to construct some groups of exponent $p^n$. These groups, as…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Fernando Szechtman

In this article, we give a positive answer to a question posed in 1960 by D.S. Mitrinovi\'{c} and R.S. Mitrinovi\'{c} (see: D.S. Mitrinovi\'{c} et R.S. Mitrinovi\'{c}, Tableaux qui fournissent des polyn\^{o}mes de Stirling, Publications de…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-25 Farid Bencherif , Tarek Garici

We improve Bombieri's asymptotic sieve to localise the variables. As a consequence, we prove, under a Elliott-Halberstam conjecture, that there exists an infinity of twins almost prime. Those are prime numbers $p$ such that for all…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Nathalie Debouzy