The prime grid contains arbitrarily large empty polygons
Combinatorics
2024-11-19 v1 Metric Geometry
Number Theory
Abstract
This paper proves a 2017 conjecture of De Loera, La Haye, Oliveros, and Rold\'an-Pensado that the "prime grid" \big\{(p,q) \in \mathbb{Z}^2 : \text{pq are prime}\big\} \subseteq \mathbb{R}^2 contains empty polygons with arbitrarily many vertices. This implies that no Helly-type theorem is true for the prime grid.
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@article{arxiv.2411.10549,
title = {The prime grid contains arbitrarily large empty polygons},
author = {Travis Dillon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.10549},
year = {2024}
}
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6 pages