On a problem of Sierpinski
Number Theory
2014-09-16 v2 Combinatorics
Abstract
Let be an integer. Denote by the least integer so that every integer is the sum of exactly integers which are pairwise relatively prime. In 1964, Sierpi\'nski asked a determination of . Let , be the sequence of consecutive primes and let . P. Erd\H os proved that there exists an absolute constant with . In this paper, we determine for all . As a corollary, we show that and the set of integers with has the asymptotic density 1.
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@article{arxiv.1110.4714,
title = {On a problem of Sierpinski},
author = {Jin-Hui Fang and Yong-Gao Chen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.4714},
year = {2014}
}
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