Tuesday, November 20, 2018

number theory - Conditions for which (sumpi)(sumfrac1pi) over an arbitrary i for a set of primes pi is unique?

I am looking for conditions (if any are needed beyond properties of primes) for which (pi)(1pi) over an arbitrary i for a set of primes {pi} is unique in that there is no other set of primes pj for which (pi)(1pi)=(pj)(1pj)



It is a bit difficult to describe so I will give an example:




I would like to know if there is a proof (if it is even true) that given any primes p1 and p2 that there are no other set of primes {p3,p4,..,pk} such that
(p1+p2)(1p1+1p2)=(p3+p4+..+pk)(1p3+1p4+..+1pk)



And in general (again I don't know if this is true), that



(p1+p2+..+pn)(1p1+1p2+..+1pn)(p3+p4+..+ps)(1p3+1p4+..+1ps)



So basically whether or not I can find a set of two sets of primes of any length which satisfy the equality.




I have been trying to figure out a clever way to reduce this and would guess that there is some trick by the uniqueness of primes, but I don't see it.



Thanks,



Brian

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