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Update: This work reproduces an earlier result of Peck, which the author was initially unaware of. The method of the proof is essentially the same as the original work of Peck. There are no new results. We show that the sum of squares of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-07 J. Maynard

Let $t \in \mathbb{N}$, $\eta >0$. Suppose that $x$ is a sufficiently large real number and $q$ is a natural number with $q \leq x^{5/12-\eta}$, $q$ not a multiple of the conductor of the exceptional character $\chi^*$ (if it exists).…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-27 Roger C. Baker , Liangyi Zhao

Let $X$ be a large parameter. We will first give a new estimate for the integral moments of primes in short intervals of the type $(p,p+h]$, where $p\leq X$ is a prime number and $h=\odi{X}$. Then we will apply this to prove that for every…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-02-14 D. Bazzanella , A. Languasco , A. Zaccagnini

For each prime $p$, let $I_p \subset \mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z}$ denote a collection of residue classes modulo $p$ such that the cardinalities $|I_p|$ are bounded and about $1$ on average. We show that for sufficiently large $x$, the sifted set…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Kevin Ford , Sergei Konyagin , James Maynard , Carl Pomerance , Terence Tao

We show that $$\sum_{\substack{p_n \in [x, 2x] \\ p_{n+1} - p_n \ge x^{1/2}}} (p_{n+1} - p_n) \ll x^{0.57+\epsilon}$$ and $$\sum_{\substack{p_n \in [x, 2x] \\ p_{n+1} - p_n \ge x^{0.45}}} (p_{n+1} - p_n) \ll x^{0.63+\epsilon},$$ where $p_n$…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Olli Järviniemi

The following is proven using arguments that do not revolve around the Riemann Hypothesis or Sieve Theory. If $p_n$ is the $n^{\rm th}$ prime and $g_n=p_{n+1}-p_n$, then $g_n=O({p_n}^{2/3})$.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Madieyna Diouf

We prove a generalization of the author's work to show that any subset of the primes which is `well-distributed' in arithmetic progressions contains many primes which are close together. Moreover, our bounds hold with some uniformity in the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-17 James Maynard

We propose the formula for the number of pairs of consecutive primes $p_n, p_{n+1}<x$ separated by gap $d=p_{n+1}-p_n$ expressed directly by the number of all primes $<x$, i.e. by $\pi(x)$. As the application of this formula we formulate 7…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Marek Wolf

Using as the working hypothesis of an evaluation of the difference between primes $p_{n+1} - p_n = O(\sqrt{p_n})$ we represent in detail the proofs of Legendre's and Oppermann's conjectures.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-28 Felix Sidokhine

We show that \[\sum_{\substack{p_n\le x\\ p_{n+1}-p_n\ge\sqrt{p_n}}}(p_{n+1}-p_n)\ll_{\varepsilon} x^{3/5+\varepsilon}\] for any fixed $\varepsilon>0$. This improves a result of Matom\"{a}ki, in which the exponent was $2/3$.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-25 D. R. Heath-Brown

We show that there exists pairs of consecutive primes less than $x$ whose difference is larger than $t(1+o(1))(\log{x})(\log\log{x})(\log\log\log\log{x})(\log\log\log{x})^{-2}$ for any fixed $t$. Our proof works by incorporating recent…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-30 James Maynard

For each $m\geq 1$, there exist infinitely many primes $p_1<p_2<\ldots<p_{m+1}$ such that $p_{m+1}-p_1=O(m^4e^{8m})$ and $p_j+2$ has at most $\frac{16m}{\log 2}+\frac{5\log m}{\log 2}+37$ prime divisors for each $j$.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Hongze Li , Hao Pan

It is known that there are infinitely-many prime numbers which take the form of a polynomial of degree one with integer coefficients, this is Dirichlet's theorem. We use an elementary sieving argument together with bounds on the prime…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-07-24 Acquaah Peter

Erd\"os conjectured that the set J of limit points of d_n/logn contains all nonnegative numbers, where d_n denotes the nth primegap. The author proved a year ago (arXiv: 1305.6289) that J contains an interval of type [0,c] with a positive…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-09-25 Janos Pintz

Let $H$ be a $(k+1)$-uniform hypergraph which is nearly $D$-regular, such that any set of $i$ vertices is contained in at most $D_i$ edges of $H$ for each $i = 2, 3, \dots, k+1$. Influential results of Pippenger and of Frankl and R\"odl…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Stephen Gould , Tom Kelly

We show that for every $r \geq 1$, and all $r$ distinct (sufficiently large) primes $p_1,..., p_r > p_0(r)$, there exist infinitely many integers $n$ such that ${2n \choose n}$ is divisible by these primes to only low multiplicity. From a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-09 Ernie Croot , Hamed Mousavi , Maxie Schmidt

The prime number graph is the set of points $(n,p_n)$ where $p_n$ denotes the $n^{\rm th}$ prime. Let $L(n)$ be the minimum number of straight line segments needed to cover the first $n$ points in this set. Let $B(n)$ be the largest number…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Carl Pomerance , Patrick Solé

For any positive integer $k$, we show that infinitely often, perfect $k$-th powers appear inside very long gaps between consecutive prime numbers, that is, gaps of size $$ c_k \frac{\log p \log_2 p \log_4 p}{(\log_3 p)^2}, $$ where $p$ is…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-25 Kevin Ford , D. R. Heath-Brown , Sergei Konyagin

Let $1 \leq p < q < \infty$. We show that \[ \sup{\frac{\left\| D\right\|_{\mathcal{H}_{q}}}{\left\| D\right\|_{\mathcal{H}_{p}}}} = \exp{\left( \frac{\log{x}}{\log{\log{x}}} \left(\log{\sqrt{\frac{q}{p}}} +…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2016-03-08 Andreas Defant , Antonio Pérez

We show that at least 1/3 of positive real numbers are in the set of limit points of normalized prime gaps. More precisely, if $p_n$ denotes the $n$th prime and $\mathbb{L}$ is the set of limit points of the sequence $\{(p_{n+1}-p_n)/\log…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-03 Jori Merikoski