An integer n is said to be ternary if it is composed of three distinct odd primes. In this paper, we asymptotically count the number of ternary integers n ≤ x with the constituent primes satisfying various constraints. We apply our results to the study of the simplest class of (inverse) cyclotomic polynomials that can have coefficients that are greater than 1 in absolute value, namely to the nth (inverse) cyclotomic polynomials with ternary n. We show, for example, that the corrected Sister Beiter conjecture is true for a fraction ≥ 0.925 of ternary integers.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)407-431
JournalInternational Journal of Number Theory
Volume15
Issue number2
Early online date27 Sep 2018
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes

    Research areas

  • cyclotomic polynomials, prime numbers, Ternary integers, FLAT CYCLOTOMIC POLYNOMIALS, BOUNDS, COEFFICIENTS

    Scopus subject areas

  • Algebra and Number Theory

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