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Almost prime triples and Chen's Theorem

Number Theory 2015-10-06 v2

Abstract

We show that there are infinitely many primes pp such that not only does p+2p + 2 have at most two prime factors, but p+6p + 6 also has a bounded number of prime divisors. This refines the well known result of Chen.

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@article{arxiv.1504.00533,
  title  = {Almost prime triples and Chen's Theorem},
  author = {D. R. Heath-Brown and Xiannan Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.00533},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

22 pages; errors with numerical calculations corrected after referee report; main result somewhat improved

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