Paper presented at Strathmore International Math Research Conference on July 23 - 27, 2012We study the length (number of summands) in partitions of
an integer into primes, both in the restricted (unequal summands) and
unrestricted case. It is shown how one can obtain asymptotic expansions
for the mean and variance (and potentially higher moments), which is in
contrast to the fact that there is no asymptotic formula for the number
of such partitions in terms of elementary functions. Building on ideas of
Hwang, we also prove a central limit theorem in the restricted case. The
technique also generalizes to partitions into powers of primes, or even
more generally, the values of a polynomial at the prime numbers.We study the length (number of summands) in partitions of an integer into primes, both in the restricted (unequal summands) and unrestricted case. It is shown how one can obtain asymptotic expansions for the mean and variance (and potentially higher moments), which is in contrast to the fact that there is no asymptotic formula for the number of such partitions in terms of elementary functions. Building on ideas of Hwang, we also prove a central limit theorem in the restricted case. The technique also generalizes to partitions into powers of primes, or even more generally, the values of a polynomial at the prime numbers
