Triangles with prime hypotenuse

DOI10.1007/S40993-017-0086-6zbMATH Open1426.11095arXiv1703.10953OpenAlexW2605126884MaRDI QIDQ2409031FDOQ2409031

Authors: Sam Chow, Carl Pomerance 

Publication date: 10 October 2017

Published in: Research in Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The sequence $3,5,9,11,15,19,21,25,29,35,dots$ consists of odd legs in right triangles with integer side lengths and prime hypotenuse. We show that the upper density of this sequence is zero, with logarithmic decay. The same estimate holds for the sequence of even legs in such triangles. We expect our upper bound, which involves the ErdH{o}s--Ford--Tenenbaum constant, to be sharp up to a double-logarithmic factor. We also provide a nontrivial lower bound. Our techniques involve sieve methods, the distribution of Gaussian primes in narrow sectors, and the Hardy--Ramanujan inequality.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10953

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zbMATH Keywords

Pythagorean triplesGaussian primes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Distribution of primes (11N05) Distribution of integers with specified multiplicative constraints (11N25) Applications of sieve methods (11N36)

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