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Critical probabilistic characteristics of the Cram\'er model for primes and arithmetical properties

Number Theory 2026-05-22 v1

Abstract

This work is a probabilistic study of the 'primes' of the Cram\'er model. We prove that there exists a set of integers S\mathcal S of density 1 such that \begin{equation}\liminf_{ \mathcal S\ni n\to\infty} (\log n)\mathbb{P} \{S_n\ \hbox{prime} \} \ge \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi e}\, }, \end{equation} and that for b>12b>\frac12, the formula \begin{equation} \mathbb{P} \{S_n\ \text{prime}\, \} \, =\, \frac{ (1+ o( 1) )}{ \sqrt{2\pi B_n } } \int_{m_n-\sqrt{ 2bB_n\log n}}^{m_n+\sqrt{ 2bB_n\log n}} \, e^{-\frac{(t - m_n)^2}{ 2 B_n } }\, {\rm d}\pi(t), \end{equation} in which mn=ESn,Bn=VarSnm_n=\mathbb{E} S_n,B_n={\rm Var }\,S_n, holds true for all nSn\in \mathcal S, nn\to \infty. Further we prove that for any 0<η<10<\eta<1, and all nn large enough and ζ0ζexp{clognloglogn} \zeta_0\le \zeta\le \exp\big\{ \frac{c\log n}{\log\log n}\big\}, letting Sn=j=8nξjS'_n= \sum_{j= 8}^n \xi_j, \begin{eqnarray*} \mathbb{P}\big\{ S'_n\hbox{\ ζ\zeta-quasiprime}\big\} \,\ge \, (1-\eta) \frac{ e^{-\gamma} }{ \log \zeta }, \end{eqnarray*} according to Pintz's terminology, where c>0c>0 and γ\gamma is Euler's constant. We also test which infinite sequences of primes are ultimately avoided by the 'primes' of the Cram\'er model, with probability 1. Moreover we show that the Cram\'er model has incidences on the Prime Number Theorem, since it predicts that the error term is sensitive to subsequences. We obtain sharp results on the length and the number of occurrences of intervals II such as for some z>0z>0, \begin{equation}\sup_{n\in I} \frac{|S_n-m_n|}{ \sqrt{B_n}}\le z, \end{equation} which are tied with the spectrum of the Sturm-Liouville equation.

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@article{arxiv.2105.11020,
  title  = {Critical probabilistic characteristics of the Cram\'er model for primes and arithmetical properties},
  author = {Michel Weber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.11020},
  year   = {2026}
}

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