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We prove that under the assumption of the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis each sufficiently large odd integer can be expressed as the sum of a prime and two isolated primes.
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Published in Russian in Trudy Matematicheskogo Instituta imeni V.A. Steklova, 2017, Vol. 296, pp. 192–206.
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Maier, H., Rassias, M.T. The ternary Goldbach problem with a prime and two isolated primes. Proc. Steklov Inst. Math. 296, 183–197 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0081543817010151
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