Colloquium de l'IDP

Primes as sums of Fibonacci numbers

par Michael Drmota (TU Wien)

Europe/Paris
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Description

The purpose of the talk is to discuss the relationship between prime numbers and sums of Fibonacci numbers. The main result says that for every sufficiently large integer k there exists a prime number that can be represented as the sum of k different and  non-consecutive Fibonacci numbers. This property is closely related to, and based on, a prime number theorem for certain so-called morphic sequences. The proof uses Gowers norms estimates that leads to  level-of-distribution results as well as to estimates of sums of type  I and II. Furthermore a strong central limit theorem for the  Zeckendorf sum-of-digits function along primes has to be established.

This is joint work with Clemens Müllner and Lukas Spiegelhofer  
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.04068