Saturation and Growth of Reachable Prime Quotients

We study the saturation of the prime-input floor-quotient map \[ V(X)=\{\lfloor X/p\rfloor : p\le X,\ p\text{ prime}\}, \] with particular emphasis on its prime values and on OEIS A090528. A pointwise theorem of Baker, Harman and Pintz implies complete saturation up to exponent \(19/59\): every integer up to \(X^{19/59}-1\) occurs for all sufficiently large \(X\). Using Jia's exceptional-set theorem for primes in short intervals, we prove that for every fixed \(0<\beta<19/39\), the missing quotient values up to \(X^\beta\) form an arbitrarily logarithmically sparse exceptional set, and typical fibers have order of magnitude \(X/(q^2\log X)\). As an application, every term of the prime-quotient sequence underlying OEIS A090528 is nonzero, and if \(b(n)\) denotes the prime quotient produced by the least prime denominator for \(n^n\), then \[ \liminf_{n\to\infty}\frac{\log b(n)}{n\log n}\ge \frac{19}{39}. \] We also introduce a complete-saturation exponent \(\sigma\), prove \(19/59\le\sigma\le1/2\), and conjecture \(\sigma=1/2\). The accompanying supporting archive contains the LaTeX source, finite recomputation data, reproducibility scripts, and pure-Python exact certificates for the finite \(n=2,\ldots,51\) alignment.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-09-30
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23056731
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Analytic Number Theory Research
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Saturation and Growth of Reachable Prime Quotients

Lien-Hung Su
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Analytic Number Theory Research
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Saturation and Growth of Reachable Prime Quotients

Lien-Hung Su
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Abstract

We study the saturation of the prime-input floor-quotient map \[ V(X)=\{\lfloor X/p\rfloor : p\le X,\ p\text{ prime}\}, \] with particular emphasis on its prime values and on OEIS A090528. A pointwise theorem of Baker, Harman and Pintz implies complete saturation up to exponent \(19/59\): every integer up to \(X^{19/59}-1\) occurs for all sufficiently large \(X\). Using Jia's exceptional-set theorem for primes in short intervals, we prove that for every fixed \(0<\beta<19/39\), the missing quotient values up to \(X^\beta\) form an arbitrarily logarithmically sparse exceptional set, and typical fibers have order of magnitude \(X/(q^2\log X)\). As an application, every term of the prime-quotient sequence underlying OEIS A090528 is nonzero, and if \(b(n)\) denotes the prime quotient produced by the least prime denominator for \(n^n\), then \[ \liminf_{n\to\infty}\frac{\log b(n)}{n\log n}\ge \frac{19}{39}. \] We also introduce a complete-saturation exponent \(\sigma\), prove \(19/59\le\sigma\le1/2\), and conjecture \(\sigma=1/2\). The accompanying supporting archive contains the LaTeX source, finite recomputation data, reproducibility scripts, and pure-Python exact certificates for the finite \(n=2,\ldots,51\) alignment.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology (TW)
Analytic Number Theory Research
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