{ "id": "1404.5669", "version": "v2", "published": "2014-04-22T23:28:17.000Z", "updated": "2015-02-26T03:18:27.000Z", "title": "Linnik's approximation to Goldbach's conjecture, and other problems", "authors": [ "Dave Platt", "Tim Trudgian" ], "comment": "Second version: 10 pages, another problem added", "categories": [ "math.NT" ], "abstract": "We examine the problem of writing every sufficiently large even number as the sum of two primes and at most $K$ powers of 2. We outline an approach that only just falls short of improving the current bounds on $K$. Finally, we improve the estimates in other Waring--Goldbach problems.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2014-04-22T23:28:17.000Z", "comment": "9 pages", "journal": null, "doi": null }, { "version": "v2", "updated": "2015-02-26T03:18:27.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "11P32" ], "keywords": [ "goldbachs conjecture", "linniks approximation", "current bounds", "falls short", "waring-goldbach problems" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 10, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2014arXiv1404.5669P" } } }