A new proof of Dirichlet's theorem concerning prime numbers in arithmetic progressions
Abstract
It is known that there are infinitely-many prime numbers which take the form of a polynomial of degree one with integer coefficients, this is Dirichlet's theorem. We use an elementary sieving argument together with bounds on the prime number counting function to provide a new proof of Dirichlet's theorem. We show that if and , a finite set of primes. Then the number of components of that are divisible by some prime in is less than or equal to where is the number of distinct prime divisors of and . We claim that the in the bound can be replaced with , the \texttt{best possible bound}. However, we did not demonstrate our claim in this paper since the (bound) is enough for the new proof of Dirichlet's theorem. This result effectively means that given ; if the primes in divide integers in then for every , they will divide at most integers in
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@article{arxiv.1707.05432,
title = {A new proof of Dirichlet's theorem concerning prime numbers in arithmetic progressions},
author = {Acquaah Peter},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.05432},
year = {2017}
}
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Error in theorem 2 : wrong paper!