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On sum of prime factors of composite positive integers
- Source :
- The Ramanujan Journal. 57:1463-1471
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021.
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Abstract
- Let $${\mathfrak {B}}(x)$$ be the number of composite positive integers up to x whose sum of distinct prime factors is a prime number. Luca and Moodley proved that there exist two positive constants $$a_1$$ and $$a_2$$ such that $$\begin{aligned} a_1x/\log ^3x\le {\mathfrak {B}}(x)\le a_2x/\log x. \end{aligned}$$ Assuming a uniform version of the Bateman–Horn conjecture, they gave a conditional proof of a lower bound of the same order of magnitude as the upper bound. In this paper, we offer an unconditional proof of the this result, i.e., $$\begin{aligned} {\mathfrak {B}}(x)\asymp \frac{x}{\log x}. \end{aligned}$$
Details
- ISSN :
- 15729303 and 13824090
- Volume :
- 57
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Ramanujan Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........8ca6c1fb3d77896d7d811f98217ea46d
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11139-020-00370-y