Large gaps between consecutive prime numbers
Number Theory
2016-07-18 v2
Abstract
Let denote the size of the largest gap between consecutive primes below . Answering a question of Erdos, we show that where is a function tending to infinity with . Our proof combines existing arguments with a random construction covering a set of primes by arithmetic progressions. As such, we rely on recent work on the existence and distribution of long arithmetic progressions consisting entirely of primes.
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@article{arxiv.1408.4505,
title = {Large gaps between consecutive prime numbers},
author = {Kevin Ford and Ben Green and Sergei Konyagin and Terence Tao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.4505},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
v2. very minor corrections. To appear in Ann. Math