A230451 Number of ways to write n = x + y + z (x, y, z > 0) such that 2*x + 1, 2*y + 3, 2*z + 5 are all prime and x*y*z is a triangular number.

0, 0, 1, 0, 2, 3, 0, 4, 3, 1, 7, 3, 2, 3, 7, 4, 5, 6, 3, 4, 8, 5, 8, 3, 6, 8, 9, 9, 5, 12, 2, 11, 4, 4, 4, 13, 5, 9, 13, 8, 14, 8, 3, 15, 7, 8, 10, 6, 5, 17, 15, 4, 6, 9, 8, 10, 15, 9, 7, 15, 11, 5, 6, 11, 14, 14, 7, 11, 3, 12, 23, 16, 5, 20, 14, 4, 9, 14, 5, 19, 19, 4, 3, 12, 7, 16, 5, 12, 6, 11, 12, 12, 23, 14, 23, 12, 5, 17, 14, 5

Offset: 1

Author

Zhi-Wei Sun, Oct 19 2013

Keywords

• nonn

Comments

Conjecture: (i) a(n) > 0 except for n = 1, 2, 4, 7.

(ii) Any integer n > 7 can be written as x + y + z (x, y, z > 0) such that 2*x + 1, 2*y + 1, 2*x*y + 1 are primes and x*y*z is a triangular number.

(iii) Each integer n > 4 not equal to 7 or 14 can be expressed as p + q + r (p, q, r > 0) with p and 2*q + 1 both primes, and p*q*r a triangular number.

(iv) Any integer n > 6 not among 16, 20, 60 can be written as x + y + z (x, y, z > 0) such that x*y + x*z + y*z is a triangular number.

Part (i) is stronger than Goldbach's weak conjecture which was finally proved by H. Helfgott in 2013.

See also A227877 and A230596 for some related conjectures.

Examples

			a(6) = 3 since 6 = 1 + 2 + 3 = 2 + 1 + 3 = 3 + 2 + 1, and 2*1 + 1 = 3, 2*2 + 3 = 7, 2*3 + 5 = 11, 2*2 + 1 = 5, 2*1 + 3 = 5, 2*3 + 1 = 7, 2*1 + 5 = 7 are all prime.
a(10) = 1 since 10 = 3 + 4 + 3, and 2*3 + 1 = 7, 2*4 + 3 = 11, 2*3 + 5 = 11 are all prime.
		

Links

• Zhi-Wei Sun, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..6000
• Zhi-Wei Sun, A new conjecture on triangular numbers, a message to Number Theory List, Oct. 25, 2013.
• Zhi-Wei Sun, Conjectures involving primes and quadratic forms, preprint, arXiv:1211.1588.

Crossrefs

Cf. A000040, A000217, A068307, A132399, A227877, A229166, A230121, A230141, A230219, A230596.

Programs

Mathematica

SQ[n_]:=IntegerQ[Sqrt[n]]
TQ[n_]:=SQ[8n+1]
a[n_]:=Sum[If[PrimeQ[2i+1]&&PrimeQ[2j+3]&&PrimeQ[2(n-i-j)+5]&&TQ[i*j(n-i-j)],1,0],{i,1,n-2},{j,1,n-1-i}]
Table[a[n],{n,1,100}]