On a problem of Sierpiński

Abstract: Let

s g e 2

be an integer. Denote by

m u_{s}

the least integer so that every integer

e l l > m u_{s}

is the sum of exactly

s

integers

> 1

which are pairwise relatively prime. In 1964, Sierpi'nski asked a determination of

m u_{s}

. Let

p_{1} = 2

,

p_{2} = 3, ...

be the sequence of consecutive primes and let

m u_{s} = p_{2} + p_{3} + ... + p_{s + 1} + c_{s}

. P. ErdH os proved that there exists an absolute constant

C

with

- 2 l e c_{s} l e C

. In this paper, we determine

m u_{s}

for all

s g e 2

. As a corollary, we show that

- 2 l e c_{s} l e 1100

and the set of integers

s

with

m u_{s} = p_{2} + p_{3} + ... + p_{s + 1} + 1100

has the asymptotic density 1.

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