Conjectures on Representations Involving Primes

Abstract

We pose 100 new conjectures on representations involving primes or related things, which might interest number theorists and stimulate further research. Below are five typical examples: (i) For any positive integer n, there exists \(k\in \{0,\ldots ,n\}\) such that \(n+k\) and \(n+k^2\) are both prime. (ii) Each integer \(n>1\) can be written as \(x+y\) with \(x,y\in \{1,2,3,\ldots \}\) such that \(x+ny\) and \(x^2+ny^2\) are both prime. (iii) For any rational number \(r>0\), there are distinct primes \(q_1,\ldots ,q_k\) with \(r=\sum _{j=1}^k1/(q_j-1)\). (iv) Every \(n=4,5,\ldots \) can be written as \(p+q\), where p is a prime with \(p-1\) and \(p+1\) both practical, and q is either prime or practical. (v) Any positive rational number can be written as m/n, where m and n are positive integers with \(p_m+p_n\) a square (or \(\pi (m)\pi (n)\) a positive square), \(p_k\) is the kth prime and \(\pi (x)\) is the prime-counting function.