The estimate for mean values on prime numbers relative to 4p = 1n₁ + 1 n₂ + 1 n₃

DOI10.1007/S11425-011-4348-9MaRDI QIDQ424285zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Chaohua Jia

Publication date 31 May 2012

Published in Science China. Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.6039

zbMATH Keywords

Diophantine equationErdős-Straus conjecturemean valueprime number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rational numbers as sums of fractions (11D68)

Abstract: For the positive integer $n$, let $f(n)$ denote the number of positive integer solutions $(n_1,n_2,n_3)$ of the Diophantine equation ${\displaystyle }$ {4over n}={1over n_1}+{1over n_2}+{1over n_3}. ${\displaystyle }$ For the prime number $p$, $f(p)$ can be split into $f_1(p)+f_2(p),$ where $f_i(p)(i=1,2)$ counts those solutions with exactly $i$ of denominators $n_1,n_2,n_3$ divisible by $p.$ Recently Terence Tao proved that ${\displaystyle }$ sum_{p< x}f_1(p)ll xexp({clog xover loglog x}) ${\displaystyle }$ with other results. In this paper we shall improve it to ${\displaystyle }$ sum_{p< x}f_1(p)ll xlog^5xloglog^2x. ${\displaystyle }$

Review text

For \(i\in \{1,2\}\), let \(f_i(n) \) denote the number of positive integers solutions \((n_1,n_2,n_3)\) of the Erdős-Straus equation \(\frac{4}{n}=\frac{1}{n_1} +\frac{1}{n_2}+\frac{1}{n_3}\), where exactly \(i\) of the denominators \(n_1,n_2\) and \(n_3\) are divisible by \(n\). The author proves the following upper bounds on the average values for prime arguments: \[ \sum_{p \leq x} f_1(p) \ll x (\log x)^5 (\log \log x)^2. \] \[ \sum_{p \leq x} f_2(p) \ll x (\log x)^2 \log \log x. \] While this is some improvement over a first version of a manuscript of \textit{T.~Tao} [``On the number of solutions to \(\frac{4}{p}=\frac{1}{n_1}+\frac{1}{n_2}+\frac{1}{n_3}\)], a later version [\textit{C. Elsholtz} and \textit{T. Tao}, ``Counting the number of solutions to the Erdős-Straus equation on unit fractions, \url{http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.1010}] contains an even more precise estimate: \[ x (\log x)^2 \ll\sum_{p \leq x} f_1(p) \ll x (\log x)^2 \log \log x. \] \[ x (\log x)^2 \ll \sum_{p \leq x} f_2(p) \ll x (\log x)^2. \] \[ x (\log x)^3 \ll\sum_{n \leq x} f_1(n) \ll x (\log x)^3. \] \[ x (\log x)^3 \ll \sum_{n \leq x} f_2(n) \ll x (\log x)^3. \]

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