Transcendency of variants of Mills' constant
Number Theory
2025-12-09 v3
Abstract
Let denote the integer part of . For every sequence of positive integers, we define as the smallest real number such that is a prime number for every positive integer . The number is called Mills' constant. Recently, the author showed that is irrational; however, the transcendency remains open. In this paper, we show that Mills' constant is transcendental under the Density Hypothesis of the Riemann zeta function. Furthermore, we obtain four classes of sequences for which we can verify the arithmetic properties of . For simplicity, we give four representative examples belonging to each class: (A) is irrational for every real number ; (B) is transcendental; (C) is transcendental for every integer ; (D) is transcendental.
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@article{arxiv.2508.16068,
title = {Transcendency of variants of Mills' constant},
author = {Kota Saito},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.16068},
year = {2025}
}
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30 pages