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An explicit lower bound for large gaps between some consecutive primes

Number Theory 2024-06-06 v4

Abstract

Let pnp_{n} denote the nnth prime and for any fixed positive integer kk and X2X\geq 2, put Gk(X):=maxpn+kXmin{pn+1pn,,pn+kpn+k1}. G_{k}(X):=\max _{p _{n+k}\leq X} \min \{ p_{n+1}-p_{n}, \ldots , p_{n+k}-p_{n+k-1} \}. Ford, Maynard and Tao proved that there exists an effective absolute constant cLG>0c_{LG}>0 such that Gk(X)cLGk2logXloglogXloglogloglogXlogloglogX G_{k}(X)\geq \frac{c_{LG}}{k^{2}}\frac{\log X \log \log X \log \log \log \log X}{\log \log \log X} holds for any sufficiently large XX. The main purpose of this paper is to determine the constant cLGc_{LG} above. We see that cLGc_{LG} is determined by several factors related to analytic number theory, for example, the ratio of integrals of functions in the multidimensional sieve of Maynard, the distribution of primes in arithmetic progressions to large moduli, and the coefficient of upper bound sieve of Selberg. We prove that the above inequality is valid at least for cLG2.0×1017c_{LG}\approx 2.0\times 10^{-17}.

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@article{arxiv.2404.06951,
  title  = {An explicit lower bound for large gaps between some consecutive primes},
  author = {Keiju Sono},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.06951},
  year   = {2024}
}

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