Long gaps between primes
Number Theory
2019-10-22 v3 Combinatorics
Abstract
Let denotes the -th prime. We prove that for sufficiently large , improving upon recent bounds of the first three and fifth authors and of the fourth author. Our main new ingredient is a generalization of a hypergraph covering theorem of Pippenger and Spencer, proven using the R\"odl nibble method.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1412.5029,
title = {Long gaps between primes},
author = {Kevin Ford and Ben Green and Sergei Konyagin and James Maynard and Terence Tao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.5029},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
(i) in the introduction, we added a corollary about the least prime in an arithmetic progression; (ii) relaxed the hypotheses of Cor. 4: now sets P' and Q' may be arbitrary sets, not necessarily sets of primes; this has an application (arXiv:1607.02543); (iii) updated many references