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Romanov's Theorem in Number Fields

Number Theory 2018-01-09 v2

Abstract

Romanov proved that a positive proportion of the integers have a representation as a sum of a prime and a power of an arbitrary fixed positive integer. Rieger proved the analogous result for number fields. We will determine an explicit lower bound for the proportion of algebraic integers in a given number field, which are sums of a power of a fixed non-unit and a prime. Furthermore, we give an improved lower bound for the lower density of Gaussian integers that have a representation as a sum of a Gaussian prime and a power of 1+i1+i. Finally, similar to Erd\H{o}s, we construct an explicit arithmetic progression of Gaussian integers with odd norm such that almost all elements of this progression do not have a representation as the sum of a prime and a power of 1+i1+i.

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@article{arxiv.1512.04869,
  title  = {Romanov's Theorem in Number Fields},
  author = {Manfred G. Madritsch and Stefan Planitzer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.04869},
  year   = {2018}
}

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13 pages

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