Source authenticatedFor every integer-valued strongly b-additive g with gcd(g(1),…,g(b−1))=1 and digit mean μg≥0: g(p) is prime for infinitely many primes p. For μg>0, ∑1/p over p<X with g(p) prime is (dg/φ(dg))log3X+Cg,1+O(1/loglogX), likewise for the first j iterates. Also #{p≤x:g(p) prime}≪π(x)/loglogx, of that exact order on a large set of x, and ω(g(p)) has normal order log3p.
What is new and what is not. For the digit sum g=sb, Harman (2012) already proved both the infinitude and a Mertens formula; the new information there is the remainder tending to a limit rather than being O(1), and the iterated version for g=s is, in the paper's words, "contained, in a stronger and quantitative form, in Harman". The new content is the generalization to every such g, which delivers the running example g=S, the sum of squared decimal digits, and so the infinitude of OEIS A052034.
For every integer-valued strongly b-additive g with gcd(g(1),…,g(b−1))=1 and digit mean μg≥0: g(p) is prime for infinitely many primes p. For μg>0, ∑1/p over p<X with g(p) prime is (dg/φ(dg))log3X+Cg,1+O(1/loglogX), likewise for the first j iterates. Also #{p≤x:g(p) prime}≪π(x)/loglogx, of that exact order on a large set of x, and ω(g(p)) has normal order log3p.
What is new and what is not. For the digit sum g=sb, Harman (2012) already proved both the infinitude and a Mertens formula; the new information there is the remainder tending to a limit rather than being O(1), and the iterated version for g=s is, in the paper's words, "contained, in a stronger and quantitative form, in Harman". The new content is the generalization to every such g, which delivers the running example g=S, the sum of squared decimal digits, and so the infinitude of OEIS A052034.