On additive decompositions of the primes
Event details
| Date | 28.05.2015 |
| Hour | 14:15 › 15:15 |
| Speaker | Fernando Shao - Stanford University |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
A (still open) conjecture of Ostmann from the 1950s says that there does not exist two sets of integers A, B with at least two elements, such that the set of all sums a+b with a in A and b in B coincides with the set of primes with finitely many exceptions. In this talk, we consider a variant of this problem with the set of all sums a+b required to be a subset (rather than all) of the primes, and show its connection to an inverse question in sieve theory.
Practical information
- Informed public
- Free
Organizer
- Prof. Eva Bayer
Contact
- Natascha Fontana