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A Variation on Mills-Like Prime-Representing Functions

Number Theory 2018-01-25 v1

Abstract

Mills showed that there exists a constant AA such that A3n\lfloor{A^{3^n}}\rfloor is prime for every positive integer nn. Kuipers and Ansari generalized this result to Acn\lfloor{A^{c^n}}\rfloor where cRc\in\mathbb{R} and c2.106c\geq 2.106. The main contribution of this paper is a proof that the function Bcn\lceil{B^{c^n}}\rceil is also a prime-representing function, where X\lceil X\rceil denotes the ceiling or least integer function. Moreover, the first 10 primes in the sequence generated in the case c=3c=3 are calculated. Lastly, the value of BB is approximated to the first 55005500 digits and is shown to begin with 1.24055470521.2405547052\ldots.

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@article{arxiv.1801.08014,
  title  = {A Variation on Mills-Like Prime-Representing Functions},
  author = {László Tóth},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.08014},
  year   = {2018}
}
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