A proof of cases of de Polignac's conjecture
Abstract
For let denote the prime number. Let the set of positive integers which are both less than and relatively prime to For let \\ For each contains at most seven primes. Let denote the floor or greatest integer function. For each integer let denote the number of integers for which contains seven primes. Let be an integer and let denote the largest prime number less than In this paper we show that and thereby prove that there are infinitely many values of for which contains seven primes. This, in particular, proves the well known twin prime conjecture as well as several cases of Alphonse de Polignac's conjecture that for every even number there are infinitely many pairs of prime numbers and for which
Cite
@article{arxiv.1912.09290,
title = {A proof of cases of de Polignac's conjecture},
author = {Mbakiso F. Mothebe and Dintle N. Kagiso and Ben T. Modise},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.09290},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
10 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1909.02205