A304720 Number of nonnegative integers k such that n - (4^k - k) is positive and squarefree.

0, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 2, 2, 3, 4, 2, 3, 3, 3, 1, 2, 2, 4, 2, 2, 3, 3, 2, 2, 3, 3, 1, 3, 2, 4, 1, 3, 2, 4, 2, 3, 2, 3

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Author

Zhi-Wei Sun, May 17 2018

Keywords

• nonn

Comments

Conjecture: a(n) > 0 for all n > 1.

This has been verified for n up to 2*10^10.

See A304721 for the values of n with a(n) = 1.

See A281192 for N such that none of N - 1 or N + 1 is squarefree: then n = N + 2 is such that n - 1 and n - 3 are not squarefree, i.e., one cannot take k = 0 or k = 1 in the present definition, and k > 1 is required to satisfy the conjecture. - M. F. Hasler, May 23 2018

Examples

			a(2) = 1 with 2 - (4^0 - 0) = 1 squarefree.
a(178) = 1 with 178 - (4^0 - 0) = 3*59 squarefree.
a(245) = 1 with 245 - (4^2 - 2) = 3*7*11 squarefree.
a(9196727) = 1 with 9196727 - (4^6 - 6) = 19*211*2293 squarefree.
a(16130577) = 1 with 16130577 - (4^9 - 9) = 2*7934221 squarefree.
a(38029402) = 1 with 38029402 - (4^1 - 1) = 1153*32983 squarefree.
a(180196927) = 1 with 180196927 - (4^11 - 11) = 2*139*227*2789 squarefree.
		

Links

• Zhi-Wei Sun, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..100000
• Zhi-Wei Sun, Mixed sums of primes and other terms, in: D. Chudnovsky and G. Chudnovsky (eds.), Additive Number Theory, Springer, New York, 2010, pp. 341-353.
• Zhi-Wei Sun, Conjectures on representations involving primes, in: M. Nathanson (ed.), Combinatorial and Additive Number Theory II, Springer Proc. in Math. & Stat., Vol. 220, Springer, Cham, 2017, pp. 279-310. (See also arXiv:1211.1588 [math.NT], 2012-2017.)

Crossrefs

Cf. A000302, A005117, A024037, A304034, A304081, A304331, A304333, A304522, A304523, A304689, A304721, A304943, A304945.

Cf. A281192.

Programs

Mathematica

f[n_]:=f[n]=4^n-n;
tab={};Do[r=0;k=0;Label[bb];If[f[k]>=n,Goto[aa]];If[SquareFreeQ[n-f[k]],r=r+1];k=k+1;Goto[bb];Label[aa];tab=Append[tab,r],{n,1,100}];Print[tab]