Bertrand's Postulate for Number Fields
Number Theory
2016-08-02 v2
Abstract
Consider an algebraic number field, , and its ring of integers, . There exists a smallest such that for any we can find a prime ideal, , in with norm in the interval . This is a generalization of Bertrand's postulate to number fields, and in this paper we produce bounds on in terms of the invariants of from an effective prime ideal theorem due to Lagarias and Odlyzko. We also show that a bound on can be obtained from an asymptotic estimate for the number of ideals in less than .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1508.00887,
title = {Bertrand's Postulate for Number Fields},
author = {Thomas A. Hulse and M. Ram Murty},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.00887},
year = {2016}
}