Euler's totient formulation of the ternary Goldbach theorem with a congruence

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Let ϕ\phi denote Euler's totient function, and let nn be an odd integer greater than five. Consider integers x,yx,y that are non-negative. The system below is supplemented by a congruence modulo 33:

{ϕ(nxy)+1=nxyϕ(2xn)+1=2xnϕ(nx+y)+1=nx+y(nxy)(2xn)0(mod3)\begin{cases} \phi(n-x-y)+1=n-x-y \\ \phi(2x-n)+1=2x-n \\ \phi(n-x+y)+1=n-x+y \\ (n-x-y)(2x-n) \equiv 0 \pmod{3} \end{cases}

Euler's totient formulation of the ternary Goldbach theorem with a congruence. The system has a solution (x,y)(x,y) in non-negative integers for every odd integer nn greater than five. The preceding theorem in the supplied text gives the same three totient equations without the congruence and identifies it with the ternary Goldbach theorem, which is stated there as a theorem and attributed to Helfgott. The text does not state a separate resolution of this strengthened formulation.

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Primary source

Felix Sidokhine, “Goldbach's Conjecture and Euler's ϕ-Function”, arXiv:1704.08117 (2017).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2013–2017). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1312.1428.

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