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Motivated by Zhi-Wei Sun's conjecture that each integer n>4 can be expressed as the sum of an odd prime, an odd Fibonacci number and a positive Fibonacci number (cf. A154257), during their visit to Nanjing Univ. Qing-Hu Hou (Nankai Univ.) and Jiang Zeng (Univ. of Lyon-I) conjectured on Jan 09 2009 that a(n)>0 for every n=5,6,.... and verified this up to 5*10^8. D. S. McNeil has verified the conjecture up to 5*10^13 and Hou and Zeng have offered prizes for settling their conjecture (see Sun 2009).

Motivated by his conjecture related to A154257, on Dec 26 2008, Zhi-Wei Sun conjectured that a(n)>0 for n=6,7,... On Jan 15 2009, D. S. McNeil verified this up to 10^12 and found no counterexamples. See the sequence A154536 for another conjecture of this sort. Sun also conjectured that any integer n>7 can be written as the sum of an odd prime, twice a positive Fibonacci number and the square of a positive Fibonacci number; this has been verified up to 2*10^8.

On Jan 16 2009, Zhi-Wei Sun conjectured that a(n)>0 for n=5,6,... and verified this up to 5*10^6. (Sun also thought that lim inf_n a(n)/log(n) is a positive constant.) D. S. McNeil continued the verification up to 10^13 and found no counterexamples. The conjecture is similar to a conjecture of Qing-Hu Hou and Jiang Zeng related to the sequence A154404; both conjectures were motivated by Sun's recent conjecture on sums of primes and Fibonacci numbers (cf. A154257).

On Jan 09 2009, Zhi-Wei Sun conjectured that a(n)>0 for every n=5,6,...; in other words, any integer n>4 can be written in the form p+F_s+F_{3t}/2 with p an odd prime and s,t>0. Sun verified this up to 5*10^6 and Qing-Hu Hou continued the verification (on Sun's request) up to 3*10^8. Note that 932633 cannot be written as p+F_s+F_{3t}/2 with p a prime and (F_s or F_{3t}/2) odd. If we set u_0=0, u_1=1 and u_{n+1}=4u_n+u_{n-1} for n=1,2,3,..., then F_{3t}/2=u_t is at least 4^{t-1} for each t=1,2,3,.... In a recent paper K. J. Wu and Z. W. Sun constructed a residue class which contains no integers of the form p+F_{3t}/2 with p a prime and t nonnegative.

This is inspired by the sequence A154290 and related conjectures of Sun. On Jan 08 2009, Zhi-Wei Sun and Qing-Hu Hou conjectured that a(n)>0 for n=6,7,...; in other words, any integer n>5 can be written as the sum of an odd prime, a positive Pell number and a companian Pell number. The Pell numbers are defined by P_0=0, P_1=1 and P_{n+1}=2P_n+P_{n-1} (n=1,2,3,...) and the companion Pell numbers are given by Q_0=Q_1=2 and Q_{n+1}=2Q_n+Q_{n-1} (n=1,2,3...). Note that for n>5 both P_n and Q_n are greater than 2^n.

D. S. McNeil disproved the conjecture by finding the 4 initial counterexamples: 169421772576, 189661491306, 257744272674, 534268276332. - Zhi-Wei Sun, Jan 17 2009

On Feb 01 2009, Zhi-Wei Sun observed that these 4 counterexamples are divisible by 42 and guessed that all counterexamples to the conjecture of Sun and Hou should be multiples of 42. - Zhi-Wei Sun, Feb 01 2009

On Jan 09 2009, Zhi-Wei Sun conjectured that a(n)>0 for all n=6,7,.... ; in other words, any integer n>5 can be written in the form p+F_s+L_{3t} with p an odd prime, s positive and t nonnegative. [Compare this with the conjecture related to the sequence A154290.] Sun verified the above conjecture up to 5*10^6 and Qing-Hu Hou continued the verification up to 2*10^8. If we set v_0=2, v_1=4 and v_{n+1}=4v_n+v_{n-1} for n=1,2,3,..., then L_{3t}=v_t is at least 4^t for every t=0,1,2,.... On Jan 17 2009, D. S. McNeil found that 36930553345551 cannot be written as the sum of a prime, a Fibonacci number and an even Lucas number.