A210681 Number of ways to write 2n = p+q+r (p<=q) with p, q, r-1, r+1 all prime and p-1, p+1, q-1, q+1, r all practical.

0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 3, 5, 6, 4, 3, 2, 4, 7, 10, 8, 5, 3, 5, 8, 12, 10, 6, 2, 3, 6, 11, 12, 6, 4, 3, 5, 9, 10, 6, 5, 4, 5, 8, 8, 5, 7, 7, 6, 8, 7, 6, 6, 8, 6, 7, 8, 5, 7, 8, 6, 7, 7, 4, 6, 7, 5, 6, 8, 4, 8, 6, 4, 5, 7, 5, 5, 8, 5, 6, 8, 6, 4, 7, 6, 6, 7, 5, 3, 7, 3, 4, 8, 6, 8, 5, 4, 3, 7, 6

Offset: 1

Author

Zhi-Wei Sun, Jan 29 2013

Keywords

• nonn

Comments

Conjecture: a(n) > 0 for all n > 4.

This conjecture involves two kinds of sandwiches introduced by the author, and it is much stronger than the Goldbach conjecture for odd numbers. We have verified the conjecture for n up to 10^7.

Zhi-Wei Sun also made the following conjectures:

(1) Any even number greater than 10 can be written as the sum of four elements in the set

S = {prime p: p-1 and p+1 are both practical}.

Also, every n=3,4,5,... can be represented as the sum of a prime in S and two triangular numbers.

(2) Each integer n>7 can be written as p + q + x^2 (or p + q + x(x+1)/2), where p is a prime with p-1 and p+1 both practical, and q is a practical number with q-1 and q+1 both prime.

(3) Every n=3,4,... can be written as the sum of three elements in the set

T = {x: 6x is practical with 6x-1 and 6x+1 both prime}.

(4) Any integer n>6 can be represented as the sum of two elements of the set S and one element of the set T.

(5) Each odd number greater than 11 can be written in the form 2p+q+r, where p and q belong to S, and r is a practical number with r-1 and r+1 both prime.

Examples

			a(5)=1 since 2*5=3+3+4 with 3 and 5 both prime, and 2 and 4 both practical.
a(6)=2 since 2*6=3+3+6=3+5+4 with 3,5,7 all prime and 2,4,6 all practical.
		

Links

• Zhi-Wei Sun, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000
• G. Melfi, On two conjectures about practical numbers, J. Number Theory 56(1996), 205-210.
• Zhi-Wei Sun, Sandwiches with primes and practical numbers, a message to Number Theory List, Jan. 13, 2013.
• Zhi-Wei Sun, Conjectures on representations involving primes, in: M. Nathanson (ed.), Combinatorial and Additive Number Theory II: CANT, New York, NY, USA, 2015 and 2016, Springer Proc. in Math. & Stat., Vol. 220, Springer, New York, 2017, pp. 279-310. (See also arXiv:1211.1588 [math.NT], 2012-2017.)

Crossrefs

Cf. A005153, A068307, A208243, A208244, A208246, A208249, A209236, A209253, A209254, A209312, A209315, A209320, A210479, A210528, A210531, A210533, A258838.

Programs

Mathematica

f[n_]:=f[n]=FactorInteger[n]
Pow[n_, i_]:=Pow[n, i]=Part[Part[f[n], i], 1]^(Part[Part[f[n], i], 2])
Con[n_]:=Con[n]=Sum[If[Part[Part[f[n], s+1], 1]<=DivisorSigma[1, Product[Pow[n, i], {i, 1, s}]]+1, 0, 1], {s, 1, Length[f[n]]-1}]
pr[n_]:=pr[n]=n>0&&(n<3||Mod[n, 2]+Con[n]==0)
pp[k_]:=pp[k]=pr[Prime[k]-1]==True&&pr[Prime[k]+1]==True
pq[n_]:=pq[n]=PrimeQ[n-1]==True&&PrimeQ[n+1]==True&&pr[n]==True
a[n_]:=a[n]=Sum[If[pp[j]==True&&pp[k]==True&&pq[2n-Prime[j]-Prime[k]]==True,1,0],{j,1,PrimePi[n-1]},{k,j,PrimePi[2n-Prime[j]]}]
Do[Print[n," ",a[n]],{n,1,100}]