Main conjecture on limited prime power sums
Let be a natural number greater than . A prime power is a number where is prime and is an integer. Main conjecture on limited prime power sums. Every natural number can be expressed as a sum
where each is prime, each is an integer, and . The conjecture is supported by exhaustive computation through and sampled checks at larger values, but no proof is given; establishing the bound of five summands remains open.
References
Primary source
Julius Stricker, “On the Representation of Integers as Sums of Limited Prime Powers”, arXiv:2508.01686 (2025).
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