Consecutive primes in tuples
Number Theory
2014-10-21 v3
Abstract
In a recent advance towards the Prime -tuple Conjecture, Maynard and Tao have shown that if is sufficiently large in terms of , then for an admissible -tuple of linear forms in , the set contains at least primes for infinitely many . In this note, we deduce that contains at least consecutive primes for infinitely many . We answer an old question of Erd\H os and Tur\'an by producing strings of consecutive primes whose successive gaps form an increasing (resp. decreasing) sequence. We also show that such strings exist with for . For any coprime integers and we find arbitrarily long strings of consecutive primes with bounded gaps in the congruence class .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1311.7003,
title = {Consecutive primes in tuples},
author = {William D. Banks and Tristan Freiberg and Caroline L. Turnage-Butterbaugh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.7003},
year = {2014}
}
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