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We introduce a method for showing that there exist prime numbers which are very close together. The method depends on the level of distribution of primes in arithmetic progressions. Assuming the Elliott-Halberstam conjecture, we prove that…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 D. A. Goldston , J. Pintz , C. Y. Yildirim

It is shown that if every odd integer $n > 5$ is the sum of three primes, then every even integer $n > 2$ is the sum of two primes. A conditional proof of Goldbach's conjecture, based on Cram\'er's conjecture, is presented. Theoretical and…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jailton C. Ferreira

We prove that a suitable explicit formula for the Cesaro-averaged number of representations of an integer as a sum of two primes holds in short intervals.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-07-28 Alessandro Languasco , Alessandro Zaccagnini

We use Maynard's methods to show that there are bounded gaps between primes in the sequence $\{\lfloor n\alpha\rfloor\}$, where $\alpha$ is an irrational number of finite type. In addition, given a superlinear function $f$ satisfying some…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-08 Lynn Chua , Soohyun Park , Geoffrey D. Smith

We show that for all large enough $x$ the interval $[x,x+x^{1/2}\log^{1.39}x]$ contains numbers with a prime factor $p > x^{18/19}.$ Our work builds on the previous works of Heath-Brown and Jia (1998) and Jia and Liu (2000) concerning the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-20 Jori Merikoski

We obtain explicit forms of the current best known asymptotic upper bounds for gaps between squarefree integers. In particular we show, for any $x \ge 2$, that every interval of the form $(x, x + 11x^{1/5}\log x]$ contains a squarefree…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Angel Kumchev , Wade McCormick , Nathan McNew , Ariana Park , Russell Scherr , Willow Ziehr

After certain subsets of Natural numbers called Range and Row are defined, we assume (1) there is a function that can produce prime numbers and (2) each even number greater than 2, like A, can be represented as the sum of n prime numbers.…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Reza Javaherdashti

The set of short intervals between consecutive primes squared has the pleasant---but seemingly unexploited---property that each interval $s_k:=\{p_k^2, \dots,p_{k+1}^2-1\}$ is fully sieved by the $k$ first primes. Here we take advantage of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-08-13 Kolbjørn Tunstrøm

We consider the Linnik--Goldbach problem of writing all large even integers as the sum of two primes and a fixed number of powers of 2. We show that, under the generalised Riemann hypothesis, one can use 6 powers of two. In addition, we…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Daniel R. Johnston , Tim Trudgian

A Prime Difference Champion (PDC) for primes up to $x$ is defined to be any element of the set of one or more differences that occur most frequently among all positive differences between primes $\le x$. Assuming an appropriate form of the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-12 S. Funkhouser , D. A. Goldston , D. Sengupta , J. Sengupta

We show the primes have level of distribution $66/107\approx 0.617$ using triply well-factorable weights. This gives the highest level of distribution for primes in any setting, improving on the prior record level $3/5=0.60$ of Maynard. We…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-18 Jared Duker Lichtman

We investigate some extremal problems in Fourier analysis and their connection to a problem in prime number theory. In particular, we improve the current bounds for the largest possible gap between consecutive primes assuming the Riemann…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-09 Emanuel Carneiro , Micah B. Milinovich , Kannan Soundararajan

This paper gives an explicit version of Selberg's 1943 mean-value estimate for the prime number theorem in intervals under the Riemann hypothesis. Two applications are given: for primes in short intervals, and Goldbach numbers (sums of two…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Michaela Cully-Hugill , Adrian W. Dudek

We introduce a new probabilistic model of the primes consisting of integers that survive the sieving process when a random residue class is selected for every prime modulus below a specific bound. From a rigorous analysis of this model, we…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-13 William Banks , Kevin Ford , Terence Tao

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…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Jens Oehlschlägel

Let $v\geq 2$ be a fixed integer, and let $x \geq 1$ and $z \geq x$ be large numbers. The exact asymptotic formula for the number of Wieferich primes $p$ such that $ v^{p-1} \equiv 1 \bmod p^2$ in the short interval $[x,x+z]$ is proposed in…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2018-05-08 N. A. Carella

Numerical study of the distribution of the Riemann zeros differences following the work [1] shows the significance of the function for which the prime sum expression is proposed. Computational results related to this definition explored…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-06 Yuri Bachilov

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

We prove that if A is a subset of the primes, and the lower density of A in the primes is larger than 1/2, then every sufficiently large even integer can be written as the sum of eight primes from A. The constant 1/2 in this statement is…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Meng Gao

Assuming the Riemann Hypothesis we prove that the interval $[N, N + H]$ contains an integer which is a sum of a prime and two squares of primes provided that $H \ge C (\log N)^{4}$, where $C > 0$ is an effective constant.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-06-07 Alessandro Languasco , Alessandro Zaccagnini