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Tuples of natural numbers with no mutual divisibility and large reciprocal sums

Standard apology in case this is something simple, as I'm not a number theorist. Let $E_1, \dots, E_n$ be disjoint finite sets of natural numbers, such that for any $a_1 \in E_1, \dots, a_n \in E_n$, ...
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Primes in modular arithmetic progression

Fix a prime $p$. I want to get $k<p$ primes $p_1<\dots<p_k$ such that at every $i\in\{1,\dots,k\}$ we have $$p_i\equiv (2i+1+c)\bmod p$$ where $c$ is fixed and $2k+1+c<p$ holds. For a ...
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Questions about a certain sequence of naturals generated by primorials

I'm working on the following sequence of naturals (which is NOT listed in OEIS) $$3,5,11,17,23,29,59,89,119,149,179,209,419,629,839,1049,1259,1469,1679,...$$ whose elements are generated this way $$3=(...
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Overview of Combinatorial Technique of "Selberg’s Symmetry Formula"

In the paper entitled "A Computational History of Prime Numbers and Riemann Zeros" (on page 4, click here) it is written about "Selberg’s symmetry formula" that- Until 1950 it was widely believed (...
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Number of primes skipped by binomial coefficients?

Take $$B(l,n)=\binom{n+l}{n}$$ and $\mathcal P(t)=\{p\mbox{ prime}:p|t\}$. What is the cardinality of $\mathcal P(B(l,n))$? What is minimum cardinality of $L\subseteq\{1,\dots,n\}$ such that $$\...
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Unstable Integers

There is a question that has been bothering my mind for quite a while now. I will present it and my current thoughts and progress on it. Let the prime factorization of an integer $n$ be $$n = p_1^{...
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How many solutions to $p_i|a_{i,1} p_1 + \dotsc + a_{i,n} p_n$?

Consider a system of $n$ divisibility conditions on $n$ prime variables: $$p_i|a_{i,1} p_1 + \dotsc + a_{i,n} p_n,\;\;\;\;\;1\leq i\leq n,$$ where $a_{i,j}$ are bounded integers. How many solutions ...
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Negative Dirichlet Pigeonhole Principle [closed]

From Dirichlet Pigeonhole Principle if $p$ is a prime and if $a,b\in\mathbb Z$ are in $(0,p/2)$ then there is a $t\in(0,p)\cap\mathbb Z$ such that $\|(x,y)\|_\infty<\lceil\sqrt p\rceil$ holds where ...
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Chen primes and permutations

In 1973 the Chinese mathematician J.-R. Chen proved that there are infinitely many primes $p$ such that $p+2$ is a product of at most two primes. Nowadays such primes $p$ are called Chen primes. For $...
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Prime plus square equals prime

Furstenberg–Sárközy's theorem states that if a set of positive integers has positive upper density, then there exists (infinitely many) pair of elements of the set, whose difference is a perfect ...
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What is the sum of the binomial coefficients ${n\choose p}$ over prime numbers?

What is known about the asymptotics, lower and upper bound of the sum of the binomial coefficients $$ S_n = {n\choose 2} + {n\choose 3} + {n\choose 5} + \cdots + {n\choose p} $$ where the sum runs ...
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Odd Chebyshev, part 2

Let $$ \forall_{n=1\ 2\ \ldots}\quad I(n)\ :=\ \frac {(6\cdot n-3)!!}{(2\cdot n-1)!!\cdot(4\cdot n-3)!!} $$ Let $\ M(n)\ $ be the smallest natural number such that $$ M(n)\cdot I(n)\ \...
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On sets of coprime numbers

We know that from prime number theorem that the number of primes below $n$ and above $\frac n2$ (denoted by $\pi_{n,\frac n2}$ is approximately $$\pi_{n,\frac n2}\approx\frac{n}{2\ln n}.$$ Denote by $...
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Distribution of composite numbers

I have moved this question to math.stackexchange.com. People who are interested in this question can discuss at :https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1272431/distribution-of-composite-numbers ...
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