Reasoning about Primes (II)
Abstract
We prove a couple of related theorems including Legendre's and Andrica's conjecture. Key to the proofs is an algorithm that delivers the exact upper bound on the greatest gap that can occur in a combinatorial game with the set of P primes <= p in their doubled primorial interval 0..p#..2p# where we relax a constraint that the primes usually follow: if the bound g(P)=2p-5 for maximizing the gap length applies with more degrees of freedom, it also applies in the more constrained prime game as g(P)<=2p-5, at least in the subregion where no other primes have influence (p' notates the next other prime). From here proving the mentioned theorems is straightforward, for example Legendre's interval is located completely inside the valid subregion and is greater than the greatest possible gap. Another consequence is that there must be a prime within n+-(sqrt(n)-1) for all n>1. For small numbers the proofs are verified using the R statistical language.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1411.6582,
title = {Reasoning about Primes (II)},
author = {Jens Oehlschlägel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.6582},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
v1: 27 pages, 4 figures This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to a crucial error in Lemma 8.4