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A proof of cases of de Polignac's conjecture

General Mathematics 2024-07-29 v6

Abstract

For n1n \geq 1 let pn p_n denote the nthn^{\rm th} prime number. Let S={1,7,11,13,17,19,23,29},S= \{1,7,11,13,17,19,23,29 \}, the set of positive integers which are both less than and relatively prime to 30.30. For x0, x \geq 0, let \\ Tx:={30x+i    iS}.T_x := \{ 30x+i \; | \; i \in S\}. For each x, x, TxT_x contains at most seven primes. Let [  ][ \; ] denote the floor or greatest integer function. For each integer s30s \geq 30 let π7(s)\pi_7(s) denote the number of integers x,  0x<[s30]x, \; 0 \leq x < [\frac {s}{30}] for which TxT_x contains seven primes. Let m1010m \geq 10^{10} be an integer and let PKmP_{K_m} denote the largest prime number less than i=1mpi.\sqrt{\prod_{i=1}^{m}p_i}. In this paper we show that i=1mpi8(Km+1)<π7(i=1mpi)\frac{\prod_{i=1}^{m}p_i}{8(K_m+1)} < \pi_7\left(\prod_{i=1}^{m}p_i\right) and thereby prove that there are infinitely many values of xx for which TxT_x 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 k,k, there are infinitely many pairs of prime numbers pp and pp' for which pp=k.p'-p = k.

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@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}
}

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10 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1909.02205