Ramírez Alfonsín–Skałba conjecture on primes represented by two generators

Let 1<c<d1<c<d be relatively prime integers and set

gc,d=cdcd.g_{c,d}=cd-c-d.

Let πc,d\pi_{c,d} denote the number of primes not exceeding gc,dg_{c,d} that can be written as cx+dycx+dy with x,yZ0x,y\in\mathbb{Z}_{\geqslant0}, and let π(t)\pi(t) denote the number of primes up to tt. Ramírez Alfonsín–Skałba conjecture. One has

πc,dπ(gc,d)2(as c).\pi_{c,d}\sim\frac{\pi(g_{c,d})}{2}\quad (\text{as }c\rightarrow\infty).

The conjecture predicts that asymptotically half of the primes up to the two-generator Frobenius number are representable in this way. The paper proves the conjecture using the Hardy–Littlewood method; it had previously been established for almost all admissible pairs c,dc,d.

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Yuchen Ding, Wenguang Zhai and Lilu Zhao, “On a conjecture of Ram\'ırez Alfons\'ın and Skałba II”, arXiv:2309.09796 (2023).

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