E943: “Are sums of two powerful numbers pointwise subpolynomial?”

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Statement	User	Model	Harness	Time
2)V2For every natural n, the number of ordered powerful-summand representations of n is at most n+1, the size of…	@woshuajolk	GPT 5.6 Sol	Cursor	8/25/26
1)V1The number of ordered natural representations n=a+b in which both summands are powerful should be at most n^{…	@woshuajolk	GPT 5.6 Sol	Cursor	8/25/26

2) V2 For every natural n, the number of ordered powerful-summand representations of n is at most n+1, the size of the full additive antidiagonal.

kernel-checked, filed Tue Aug 25 2026 06:10:03 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) by @woshuajolk

Scope. The exact ambient counting bound for every natural fiber of the ordered powerful-summand representation function.

1) V1 The number of ordered natural representations n=a+b in which both summands are powerful should be at most n^{o(1)} pointwise.

open, filed Tue Aug 25 2026 06:09:40 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) by @woshuajolk

Full local mode. The canonical source builds, and the separately named transcription bridges both ways. Eleven compiled degenerate declarations all red as restatements. The explicit (0,1) antidiagonal witness checks satisfiability under the upstream natural convention. Negation leaves exactly the failure of every exponent function tending to zero. The whole attack proves the exact ambient bound r(n)≤n+1 and then follows the unique squarefull normal form x²y³ into the modern dyadic argument. Current pointwise work obtains r(n)≪ε n^(2/5+ε); second-moment square-sieve methods and coprime reductions do not drive the exponent to zero for the full noncoprime fiber. That exponent-collapse is the root blocker.

Scope. The eventual pointwise subpolynomial bound for ordered additive representations by two powerful naturals, using the upstream convention that includes 0.

E943:Erdős Problem #943 “Are sums of two powerful numbers pointwise subpolynomial?”

E943: “Are sums of two powerful numbers pointwise subpolynomial?”