A303932 Number of ways to write 2*n as p + 2^k + 3^m, where p is a prime with 11 a quadratic residue modulo p, and k and m are nonnegative integers.

0, 1, 1, 1, 3, 4, 2, 3, 3, 1, 3, 5, 2, 1, 4, 2, 1, 4, 3, 4, 4, 2, 3, 7, 4, 2, 6, 3, 2, 4, 4, 3, 3, 2, 4, 6, 2, 1, 6, 2, 2, 6, 5, 6, 5, 5, 6, 8, 3, 5, 8, 5, 3, 7, 6, 5, 7, 6, 9, 7, 5, 7, 7, 3, 5, 9, 5, 7, 9, 6, 11, 10, 5, 11, 10, 4, 5, 13, 3, 5

Offset

1,5

Comments

Conjecture 1. a(n) > 0 for all n > 1, i.e., any even number greater than two can be written as the sum of a power 2, a power of 3 and a prime p with 11 a quadratic residue modulo p.

Conjecture 2. For any integer n > 2, we can write 2*n as p + 2^k + 3^m, where p is a prime with 11 a quadratic nonresidue modulo p, and k and m are nonnegative integers.

We have verified Conjectures 1 and 2 for n up to 5*10^8.

Links

Zhi-Wei Sun, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000

Zhi-Wei Sun, Mixed sums of primes and other terms, in: Additive Number Theory (edited by D. Chudnovsky and G. Chudnovsky), pp. 341-353, Springer, New York, 2010.

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.)

Example

a(2) = 1 since 2*2 = 2 + 2^0 + 3^0 with 11 a quadratic residue modulo the prime 2.
a(3) = 1 since 2*3 = 2 + 2^0 + 3^1 with 11 a quadratic residue modulo the prime 2.
a(10) = 1 since 2*10 = 7 + 2^2 + 3^2 with 11 a quadratic residue modulo the prime 7.
a(14) = 1 since 2*14 = 19 + 2^3 + 3^0 with 11 a quadratic residue modulo the prime 19.
a(17) = 1 since 2*17 = 5 + 2^1 + 3^3 with 11 a quadratic residue modulo the prime 5.
a(38) = 1 since 2*38 = 37 + 2^1 + 3^3 with 11 a quadratic residue modulo the prime 37.

Mathematica

PQ[n_]:=PQ[n]=n==2||(n>2&&PrimeQ[n]&&JacobiSymbol[11, n]==1);
tab={}; Do[r=0; Do[If[PQ[2n-2^k-3^m], r=r+1], {k, 0, Log[2, 2n-1]}, {m, 0, Log[3, 2n-2^k]}]; tab=Append[tab, r], {n, 1, 80}]; Print[tab]

Crossrefs

Cf. A000040, A000079, A000244, A273812, A302982, A302984, A303233, A303234, A303338, A303363, A303389, A303393, A303399, A303428, A303401, A303432, A303434, A303539, A303540, A303541, A303543, A303601, A303637, A303639, A303656, A303660, A303702, A303821.

Sequence in context: A254175 A088916 A117966 * A121891 A346780 A271590

Adjacent sequences: A303929 A303930 A303931 * A303933 A303934 A303935

Keyword

nonn

Author

Zhi-Wei Sun, May 02 2018

Status

approved