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We show that under Dickson's conjecture about the distribution of primes in the natural numbers, the theory Th(Z,+,1,0,Pr) where Pr is a predicate for the prime numbers and their negations is decidable, unstable and supersimple. This is in…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Itay Kaplan , Saharon Shelah

Prime numbers, whose properties are important subjects in mathematics, are also fundamental in computer science notably in IT security, Cryptocurrencies as Bitcoin and Blockchain, cryptography, Code theory notably Error detection codes,…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Ahmed Asimi

We studied two probabilistic models of the distribution of primes in the natural number [1].The paper considers the third probabilistic model of the distribution of primes in the natural number. The author proved that the results obtained…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-09-30 Victor Volfson

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

In 1922 Hardy and Littlewood proposed a conjecture on the asymptotic density of admissible prime k-tuples. In 2011 Wolf computed the "Skewes number" for twin primes, i.e., the first prime at which a reversal of the Hardy-Littlewood…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-08 László Tóth

We give an estimation of the existence density for the $2d$ different primes by using a new and simple algorithm for getting the $2d$ different primes. The algorithm is a kind of the sieve method, but the remainders are the central numbers…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-27 Minoru Fujimoto , Kunihiko Uehara

We show the existence of a set $A\subseteq \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 2}$ satisfying the estimates of the Bateman--Horn conjecture, Goldbach's conjecture, and also \[ \#\{p\leq x \text{ prime} ~|~ p\in A\} \gg x(\log\log x)/(\log x)^2. \]

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Christian Táfula

In this paper, a simple explanation for the Goldbach Conjecture is given. We have shown that the probability of violating the conjecture not only for the prime numbers, but also for any subset of natural numbers whose distribution is…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Ameneh Farhadian , Hamid Reza Fanai

An open conjecture of Z.-W. Sun states that for any integer $n>1$ there is a positive integer $k\le n$ such that $\pi(kn)$ is prime, where $\pi(x)$ denotes the number of primes not exceeding $x$. In this paper, we show that for any positive…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-03 Zhi-Wei Sun , Lilu Zhao

We relate the size of the error term in the Hardy-Littlewood conjectured formula for the number of prime pairs to the $L^{1}$ norm of an exponential sum over the primes formed with the von Mangoldt function.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Leon Chou , Summer Haag , Jake Huryn , Andrew Ledoan

The well-known Hardy--Ramanujan inequality states that if $\omega(n)$ denotes the number of distinct prime factors of a positive integer $n$, then there is an absolute constant $C>0$ such that uniformly for $x\ge2$ and $k\in\mathbb{N}$,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Steve Fan

We show that any set containing a positive proportion of the primes contains a 3-term arithmetic progression. An important ingredient is a proof that the primes enjoy the so-called Hardy-Littlewood majorant property. We derive this by…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ben Green

A well-known conjecture of Gilbreath, and independently Proth from the 1800s, states that if $a_{0,n} = p_n$ denotes the $n^{\text{th}}$ prime number and $a_{i,n} = |a_{i-1,n}-a_{i-1,n+1}|$ for $i, n \ge 1$, then $a_{i,1} = 1$ for all $i…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-12 Zachary Chase

Let $\mathcal{R}_k(n)$ be the number of representations of an integer $n$ as the sum of a prime and a $k$-th power. Define E_k(X) := |\{n \le X, n \in I_k, n\text{not a sum of a prime and a $k$-th power}\}|. Hardy and Littlewood conjectured…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2011-06-15 Aran Nayebi

There is extensive numerical support for the prime-pair conjecture (PPC) of Hardy and Littlewood (1923) on the asymptotic behavior of pi_{2r}(x), the number of prime pairs (p,p+2r) with p not exceeding x. However, it is still not known…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2008-06-06 Jacob Korevaar

We prove that for every nonnegative integer $m$ there exists an $\varepsilon>0$ such that if $\lambda\in (0,\varepsilon]$ and $x$ is sufficiently large in terms of $m$, then the number of positive integers $n\leq x$ for which the interval…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-01 Daniele Mastrostefano

Let $1<c<d$ be two relatively prime integers and $g_{c,d}=cd-c-d$. We confirm, by employing the Hardy--Littlewood method, a 2020 conjecture of Ram\'{\i}rez Alfons\'{\i}n and Ska{\l}ba which states that $$#\left\{p\le g_{c,d}:p\in…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-19 Yuchen Ding , Wenguang Zhai , Lilu Zhao

In 2013, Zhi-Wei Sun proposed a Romanov-type conjecture stating that every integer $n > 1$ can be written as $n = k + m$ with $k, m \ge 1$ such that $2^k + m$ is a prime. In this paper, we unconditionally prove that the natural numbers…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Songlin Han , Jinbo Yu

Let $p_{1}$, ..., $p_{k}$ be the first $k$ odd primes in succession. Let $n$ be an even integer such that $n > p_{k}$. We conjecture that if none of $n - p_{1}$, ..., $n - p_{k}$ are prime, then at least one of them has a prime factor which…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2018-02-08 Richard Williamson

We present some new ideas on important problems related to primes. The topics of our discussion are: simple formulae for primes, twin primes, Sophie Germain primes, prime tuples less than or equal to a predefined number, and their…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Dhananjay P. Mehendale