Goldbach's like conjectures arising from arithmetic progressions whose first two terms are primes

Publication date: 20 January 2019

Abstract: For two odd primes

p

and

q

such that

p < q

, let

A (p, q) := (a_{k})_{k = 1}^{i n f t y}

be the arithmetic progression whose

k

th term is given by

a_{k} = (k - 1) (q - p) + p

(i.e., with

a_{1} = p

and

a_{2} = q

). Here we conjecture that for every positive integer

a > 1

there exist a positive integer

n

and two odd primes

p

and

q

such that

a

can be expressed as a sum of the first

2 n

terms of the arithmetic progression

A (p, q)

. Notice that in the case of even

a

, this conjecture immediately follows from Goldbach's conjecture. We also propose the analogous conjecture for odd positive integers

a > 1

as well as some related Goldbach's like conjectures arising from the previously mentioned arithmetic progressions.

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