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Prime values of digital functions along the primes

For every integer-valued strongly bb-additive gg with gcd⁡(g(1),…,g(b−1))=1\gcd(g(1),\dots,g(b-1))=1 and digit mean μg≥0\mu_g\ge0: g(p)g(p) is prime for infinitely many primes pp. For μg>0\mu_g>0, ∑1/p\sum 1/p over p<Xp<X with g(p)g(p) prime is (dg/φ(dg))log⁡3X+Cg,1+O(1/log⁡log⁡X)(d_g/\varphi(d_g))\log_3X + C_{g,1} + O(1/\log\log X), likewise for the first jj iterates. Also #{p≤x:g(p) prime}≪π(x)/log⁡log⁡x\#\{p\le x: g(p)\text{ prime}\}\ll\pi(x)/\log\log x, of that exact order on a large set of xx, and ω(g(p))\omega(g(p)) has normal order log⁡3p\log_3 p. What is new and what is not. For the digit sum g=sbg=s_b, 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)O(1), and the iterated version for g=sg=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 gg, which delivers the running example g=Sg=S, the sum of squared decimal digits, and so the infinitude of OEIS A052034.

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Prime values of digital functions along the primes

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For every integer-valued strongly bb-additive gg with gcd⁡(g(1),…,g(b−1))=1\gcd(g(1),\dots,g(b-1))=1 and digit mean μg≥0\mu_g\ge0: g(p)g(p) is prime for infinitely many primes pp. For μg>0\mu_g>0, ∑1/p\sum 1/p over p<Xp<X with g(p)g(p) prime is (dg/φ(dg))log⁡3X+Cg,1+O(1/log⁡log⁡X)(d_g/\varphi(d_g))\log_3X + C_{g,1} + O(1/\log\log X), likewise for the first jj iterates. Also #{p≤x:g(p) prime}≪π(x)/log⁡log⁡x\#\{p\le x: g(p)\text{ prime}\}\ll\pi(x)/\log\log x, of that exact order on a large set of xx, and…

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For every integer-valued strongly bb-additive gg with gcd⁡(g(1),…,g(b−1))=1\gcd(g(1),\dots,g(b-1))=1 and digit mean μg≥0\mu_g\ge0: g(p)g(p) is prime for infinitely many primes pp. For μg>0\mu_g>0, ∑1/p\sum 1/p over p<Xp<X with g(p)g(p) prime is (dg/φ(dg))log⁡3X+Cg,1+O(1/log⁡log⁡X)(d_g/\varphi(d_g))\log_3X + C_{g,1} + O(1/\log\log X), likewise for the first jj iterates. Also #{p≤x:g(p) prime}≪π(x)/log⁡log⁡x\#\{p\le x: g(p)\text{ prime}\}\ll\pi(x)/\log\log x, of that exact order on a large set of xx, and ω(g(p))\omega(g(p)) has normal order log⁡3p\log_3 p. What is new and what is not. For the digit sum g=sbg=s_b, 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)O(1), and the iterated version for g=sg=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 gg, which delivers the running example g=Sg=S, the sum of squared decimal digits, and so the infinitude of OEIS A052034.

For every integer-valued strongly bb-additive gg with gcd⁡(g(1),…,g(b−1))=1\gcd(g(1),\dots,g(b-1))=1 and digit mean μg≥0\mu_g\ge0: g(p)g(p) is prime for infinitely many primes pp. For μg>0\mu_g>0, ∑1/p\sum 1/p over p<Xp<X with g(p)g(p) prime is (dg/φ(dg))log⁡3X+Cg,1+O(1/log⁡log⁡X)(d_g/\varphi(d_g))\log_3X + C_{g,1} + O(1/\log\log X), likewise for the first jj iterates. Also #{p≤x:g(p) prime}≪π(x)/log⁡log⁡x\#\{p\le x: g(p)\text{ prime}\}\ll\pi(x)/\log\log x, of that exact order on a large set of xx, and ω(g(p))\omega(g(p)) has normal order log⁡3p\log_3 p. What is new and what is not. For the digit sum g=sbg=s_b, 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)O(1), and the iterated version for g=sg=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 gg, which delivers the running example g=Sg=S, the sum of squared decimal digits, and so the infinitude of OEIS A052034.

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