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Pseudorandomness in 0's and 2's distribution in the iterated absolute differences of primes

Number Theory 2016-07-20 v2

Abstract

Be d_{m,n} a generic element in the infinite matrix D, with d_{1, n} defined as the n-th prime number and, for any m>1, d_{m, n} = | d_{m-1, n} - d_{m-1, n+1} | When n>1, after the first few terms the columns in the matrix appear to be constituted entirely by 0s and 2s. Here is reported a computation over about 4.55x10^8 elements of D, which suggests a pseudo-random distribution of these two values.

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@article{arxiv.1308.3113,
  title  = {Pseudorandomness in 0's and 2's distribution in the iterated absolute differences of primes},
  author = {Raffaele Salvia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.3113},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

This paper has been withdrawn by the author because of flaws in the statistical method used. 15 pages, 17 tables, 3 figures