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.
Authors
- Lien-Hung Su (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4176-1440)
Institutions
- National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology (TW)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-09-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23056732
- Primary Topic
- Analytic Number Theory Research
- Type
- preprint