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The Smallest Possible Counter-Example of the Even Goldbach Conjecture if Any, Can Lie Only Between Two Odd Numbers that Themselves Obey the Odd Goldbach Conjecture

Authors: Prashanth R. Rao

The even Goldbach conjecture states that any even integer greater than four may be expressed as the sum of two odd primes. The odd Goldbach conjecture states that any odd integer greater than seven must be expressible as a sum of three odd primes. These conjectures remain unverified. In this paper we explore the possible constraints that exist on the smallest possible counterexample of the even Goldbach conjecture. We prove that the odd numbers immediately flanking the smallest counterexample of the even Goldbach conjecture are themselves expressible as the sum of three odd primes and are therefore consistent with the odd Golbach conjecture.

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