Limit points of normalized prime gaps
Abstract
We show that at least 1/3 of positive real numbers are in the set of limit points of normalized prime gaps. More precisely, if denotes the th prime and is the set of limit points of the sequence then for all the Lebesque measure of is at least This improves the result of Pintz (2015) that the Lebesque measure of is at least which was obtained by a refinement of the previous ideas of Banks, Freiberg, and Maynard (2015). Our improvement comes from using Chen's sieve to give, for a certain sum over prime pairs, a better upper bound than what can be obtained using Selberg's sieve. Even though this improvement is small, a modification of the arguments Pintz and Banks, Freiberg, and Maynard shows that this is sufficient. In addition, we show that there exists a constant such that for all we have that is, gaps between limit points are bounded by an absolute constant.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1811.03008,
title = {Limit points of normalized prime gaps},
author = {Jori Merikoski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.03008},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
v2: small corrections, added proof of Proposition 4 in a more general case v3: Section 6 added, which contains a correction to the proofs of Lemmata 15 and 16 of the published version (this does not affect the results)