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The twin primes conjecture is a very old problem. Tacitly it is supposed that the primes it deals with are finite. In the present paper we consider three problems that are not related to finite primes but deal with infinite integers. The…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2015-02-24 Maurice Margenstern , Yaroslav D. Sergeyev

This document seeks to prove there are infinitely many primes whose difference is 2, referred to as twin prime pairs. This proof's methodology involves constructing a function that approximates the number of positive integers, less than a…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2017-11-01 Kevin B. Espinet

We solve some famous conjectures on the distribution of primes. These conjectures are to be listed as Legendre's, Andrica's, Oppermann's, Brocard's, Cram\'{e}r's, Shanks', and five Smarandache's conjectures. We make use of both…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Ahmad Sabihi

Gardiner, Lazarus, Metropolis, and Ulam introduced a variation of the sieve of Eratosthenes that (instead of producing the sequence of prime numbers) produces the sequence of "lucky numbers". The distribution of lucky numbers has a striking…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Carlo Sanna

Odd numbers can be indexed by the map k(n)=(n-3)/2, n belonging to 2N+3. We first propose a basic primality test using this index function that was first introduced in article (8). Input size of operations is reduced which improves…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-06-03 Marc Wolf , François Wolf

The author gives nontrivial upper and lower bounds for the number of primes in the interval $[x - x^{\theta}, x]$ for some $0.52 \leqslant \theta \leqslant 0.525$, showing that the interval $[x - x^{0.52}, x]$ contains prime numbers for all…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Runbo Li

We present an algorithm analogous to the sieve of Eratosthenes that produces the list of twin primes. Next, we count the number of twin primes resulting from the construction with two different heuristic arguments. The first method is…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-24 Jon S. Birdsey , Geza Schay

Extending our work on the $k$-tuple conjecture, we apply those methods to the Engelsma counterexamples (narrow constellations) of length $J=459$ and span $|s|=3242$. We track the evolution of these $58$ counterexamples from inadmissible…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Fred B. Holt

This paper proposes, and demonstrates the efficacy of, an elementary method for establishing a lower bound for cardinalities of selected sets of twin primes, and shows that the proof employed may be modified for selected sets of Goldbach…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2019-07-22 Tom Milner-Gulland

We pose 100 new conjectures on representations involving primes or related things, which might interest number theorists and stimulate further research. Below are five typical examples: (i) For any positive integer $n$, there exists…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-04 Zhi-Wei Sun

We showed that the prime gap for a prime number p is less than or equal to the prime count of the prime number.

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2020-07-31 Ya-Ping Lu , Shu-Fang Deng

This paper provides a commentary and guide to Appendix 8 of Laws Of Form, which is a chapter (appendix) on number theory in the book Laws of Form by Spencer-Brown. (Spencer-Brown,Laws Of Form,Revised Seventh English edition. Bohmeier…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-11 J. M. Flagg , Louis H. Kauffman , Divyamaan Sahoo

We defined numbers of the form $p\cdot a^2$ as SP numbers (Square-Prime numbers) ($a\neq1$, $p$ prime) in 'Distribution of Square-Prime Numbers' (arXiv:2109.10238). These numbers are listed in the OEIS as A228056. Some examples of SP…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Raghavendra N. Bhat

This work is meant to demonstrate new class of prime numbers -- cyclic prime numbers, that can be derived from any prime number at certain numeric systems. Cyclic prime numbers are also related to the cyclic numbers and full reptend prime…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Konstantin Kutsenko

Let $G(X)$ denote the size of the largest gap between consecutive primes below $X$. Answering a question of Erdos, we show that $$G(X) \geq f(X) \frac{\log X \log \log X \log \log \log \log X}{(\log \log \log X)^2},$$ where $f(X)$ is a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-18 Kevin Ford , Ben Green , Sergei Konyagin , Terence Tao

Under the assumption of infinitely many Siegel zeroes $s$ with $Re(s)>1-\frac{1}{(\log q)^{R}}$ for a sufficiently large value of $R$, we prove that there exist infinitely many $m$-tuples of primes that are $\ll e^{1.9828m}$ apart. This…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Thomas Wright

The most common difference that occurs among the consecutive primes less than or equal to $x$ is called a jumping champion. Occasionally there are ties. Therefore there can be more than one jumping champion for a given $x$. In 1999 A.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2011-03-03 D. A. Goldston , A. H. Ledoan

We study the surprising discrepancy between the number of primes corresponding, respectively, to the two letters of an infinite word engendered by one of the simplest Lindenmayer systems. We formulate a conjecture concerning the rate of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2008-03-07 Andrei Vieru

The three gap theorem (or Steinhaus conjecture) asserts that there are at most three distinct gap lengths in the fractional parts of the sequence $\alpha,2\alpha,\ldots,N\alpha$, for any integer $N$ and real number $\alpha$. This statement…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-06-23 Jens Marklof , Andreas Strömbergsson

Let $(a(n) : n \in \mathbb{N})$ denote a sequence of nonnegative integers. Let $0.a(1)a(2)...$ denote the real number obtained by concatenating the digit expansions, in a fixed base, of consecutive entries of $(a(n) : n \in \mathbb{N})$.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-26 John M. Campbell