DIGITALLY RESTRICTED SETS AND THE GOLDBACH CONJECTURE

Abstract We show that for any set D of at least two digits in a given base b , almost all even integers taking digits only in D when written in base b satisfy the Goldbach conjecture. More formally, if $\mathcal {A}$ is the set of numbers whose digits base b are exclusively from D , almost all elements of $\mathcal {A}$ satisfy the Goldbach conjecture. Moreover, the number of even integers in $\mathcal {A}$ which are less than X and not representable as the sum of two primes is less than $|\mathcal {A}\cap \{1,\ldots ,X\}|^{1-\delta }$ .