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Popular differences in primes along fractional powers

Number Theory 2024-11-27 v1

Abstract

We prove that EmMEnNΛ(n)Λ(n+mc)=1+O(log2BcN)\mathop{\mathbb{E}}_{m \leq M} \mathop{\mathbb{E}}_{n \leq N} \Lambda(n) \Lambda\bigl(n + \lfloor m^c \rfloor\bigr) = 1 + \rm{O}(\log^{2 - Bc} N), where c>2c > 2 is a non-integer, B3/cB \geq 3/c, and MM is of order N1/clogBNN^{1/c} \log^{-B} N. As a combinatorial consequence, we obtain that the primes contain infinitely many pairs whose difference belongs to the Piatetski-Shapiro sequence {mc ⁣:mN}\bigl\{\lfloor m^c \rfloor \colon m \in \mathbb{N} \bigr\} for any non-integer c>2c > 2.

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@article{arxiv.2411.17599,
  title  = {Popular differences in primes along fractional powers},
  author = {Bora Çalım and Ioannis Iakovakis and Sophie Long and Jack Moffatt and Deborah Wooton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.17599},
  year   = {2024}
}

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22 pages, 1 figure

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