Ramírez Alfonsín–Skałba asymptotic conjecture for primes in a numerical semigroup

Let S0(a,b)S_0(a,b) be the numerical semigroup generated by aa and bb, let g0,a,bg_{0,a,b} be its Frobenius number, and let π0,a,b\pi_{0,a,b} count the primes in S0(a,b)S_0(a,b) not exceeding g0,a,bg_{0,a,b}. Let π(x)\pi(x) denote the number of primes not exceeding xx. Ramírez Alfonsín–Skałba asymptotic conjecture. For relatively prime integers 2<a<b2<a<b,

π0,a,bπ(g0,a,b)2as a.\pi_{0,a,b}\sim \frac{\pi(g_{0,a,b})}{2}\quad\text{as }a\to\infty.

The source states that this conjecture was subsequently confirmed by Ding, Zhai, and Zhao, following an almost-everywhere result of Ding; related generalizations for π,a,b\pi_{\ell,a,b} are also known.

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Primary source

Yuchen Ding, Takao Komatsu and Honghu Liu, “Primes of the form ax+by in certain intervals with small solutions”, arXiv:2510.01781 (2025).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2024–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2509.08599, arXiv:2411.09446.

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