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A new class of Correlations insisting on Ramanujan expansions

Number Theory 2026-02-23 v1

Abstract

Studying Correlations with Ramanujan Expansions, we arrive to present the new class of, say, Two-Seasons Correlations, abbr. T-S, as a natural set expressing some of the features of, say, H-L-like Correlations; these are the ones that mimic the H-L (==Hardy-Littlewood) Correlation with shift 2k2k, needed to study 2k2k-twin primes following Hardy \& Littlewood Conjecture. After introducing the 33-Hypotheses Correlations in a previous paper, we add two other, very natural, hypotheses: the fifth is a technical one, simplifying calculations; but the fourth is called 'Parity', since it deals with the parity of natural numbers we play with. In particular, we may build (devoting to this 'our mainstream', here) a single Correlation that satisfies these '5 Axioms', thus a T-S one, that 'entangles two different Correlations' (whence Two-Seasons: T-S) depending on aa (== the shift) parity. For aa even, our 'Artifact' mimics the H-L Correlation, in fact a=2ka=2k; but, while H-L Correlation is 'negligible', say, on aa odd, our Artifact seems to compare at least in the order of magnitude to H-L Correlation on aa even, being linked to another additive problem. Namely, on aa even, the Artifact 'counts', say, classic solutions to: p1+a=p2p_1+a=p_2, in odd primes p1,p2p_1,p_2; while, on aa odd, it 'counts' solutions to: p1+a=2jp2p_1+a=2^j p_2, again with odd primes p1,p2p_1,p_2 and with jNj\in \N (satisfying the natural arithmetic constraints). More in general, our T-S Correlations 'entangle' two different Diophantine equations.

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@article{arxiv.2602.18126,
  title  = {A new class of Correlations insisting on Ramanujan expansions},
  author = {Giovanni Coppola},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.18126},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

A T-S Correlation is a kind of unexpected wonder for its many simple properties, compare the paper, see the Abstract