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The Gaussian Moat problem asks whether one can walk to infinity in the Gaussian integers using the Gaussian primes as stepping stones and taking bounded length steps or not. In this paper, we have analyzed the Gaussian primes and also…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-09 Madhuparna Das

The Gaussian Moat Problem asks whether it is possible to walk from the origin to infinity in the complex plane using only Gaussian primes as stepstones and steps of bounded length. We prove that this is not possible.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-18 Johann Christian Stumpenhusen

An interesting question, known as the Gaussian moat problem, asks whether it is possible to walk to infinity on Gaussian primes with steps of bounded length. Our work examines a similar situation in the real quadratic integer ring…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-31 Bencheng Li , Steven J. Miller , Tudor Popescu , Daniel Sarnecki , Nawapan Wattanawanichkul

We generalize the Gaussian moat problem to the finitely many imaginary quadratic fields exhibiting unique factorization in their integers. We map this problem to the Euclidean minimum spanning tree problem and use Delaunay triangulation and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-09 Siddharth Prasad

In this paper, we have developed an algorithm for the prime searching in $\mathbb{R}^3$. This problem was proposed by M. Das [Arxiv,2019]. This paper is an extension of her work. As we know the distribution of primes will get more irregular…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-09 Madhuparna Das

Given a circle of radius $r$ centered at the origin, the Gauss Circle Problem concerns counting the number of lattice points $C(r)$ within this circle. It is known that as $r$ grows large, the number of lattice points approaches $\pi r^2$,…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-02-12 Thomas Ehrenborg

We show that there exists some $\delta > 0$ such that, for any set of integers $B$ with $B\cap[1,Y]\gg Y^{1-\delta}$ for all $Y \gg 1$, there are infinitely many primes of the form $a^2+b^2$ with $b\in B$. We prove a quasi-explicit formula…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Jori Merikoski

We study whether several consecutive prime gaps can all be relatively large at the same time, or is it possible that all are squares or perfect powers, or perhaps none of them are squares? A few related results and problems are also…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Katalin Gyarmati

Let $L$ be a primitive Gaussian line, that is, a line in the complex plane that contains two, and hence infinitely many, coprime Gaussian integers. We prove that there exists an integer $G_L$ such that for every integer $n\geq G_L$ there…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-04 Elsa Magness , Brian Nugent , Leanne Robertson

We show that the Gaussian primes $P[i] \subseteq \Z[i]$ contain infinitely constellations of any prescribed shape and orientation. More precisely, given any distinct Gaussian integers $v_0,...,v_{k-1}$, we show that there are infinitely…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-01-04 Terence Tao

In this paper, we show a new upper bound of prime gaps, that is the gap between a prime number and its consecutive prime number. We show that the gap between a prime number $p_n$ and its consecutive prime number is not larger than…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Cheng-TIng Wang

In this paper we create a definition for prime gaps in the Gaussian integers using a boxcar metric. From this we used numerical methods to derive an asymptotic upper bound for the gaps in this scenario, namely O(log^2|p_{n}|).

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Kyle Bradford , James Taylor , George Volz

1. There is no existing any quadratic interval $\eta_{n}:=(n^{2},(n+1)^{2}],$ which contains less than 2 prime numbers. The number of prime numbers within $\eta_{n}$ goes averagely linear with n to infinity. 2. The exact law of the number…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2015-09-02 Hans Walther Ernst Gerhart Schmidt

Let $s(n)$ be the number of different remainders $n \bmod k$, where $1 \leq k \leq \lfloor n/2 \rfloor$. This rather natural sequence is sequence A283190 in the OEIS and while some basic facts are known, it seems that surprisingly it has…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-29 Omkar Baraskar , Ingrid Vukusic

Let $m$ be a natural number, and let $\mathcal{Q}$ be a set containing at least $\exp(C m)$ primes. We show that one can find infinitely many strings of $m$ consecutive primes each of which has some $q\in\mathcal{Q}$ as a primitive root,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-29 Roger C. Baker , Paul Pollack

If b^2 + 1 is prime then b must be even, hence we examine the form 4u^2 + 1. Rather than study primes of this form we study composites where the main theorem of this paper establishes that if 4u^2 + 1 is composite, then u belongs to a set…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2010-07-28 Kent Slinker

An interesting open conjecture asks whether it is possible to walk to infinity along primes, where each term in the sequence has one digit more than the previous. We present different greedy models for prime walks to predict the long-time…

In the present work we prove a common generalization of Maynard-Tao's recent result about consecutive bounded gaps between primes and on the Erd\H{o}s-Rankin bound about large gaps between consecutive primes. The work answers in a strong…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-09 Janos Pintz

This paper introduces prime holdout problems, a problem class related to the Collatz conjecture. After applying a linear function, instead of removing a finite set of prime factors, a holdout problem specifies a set of primes to be…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Max Milkert , Alex Ruchti , Josiah Yoder

Suppose that $n$ is $0$ or $4$ modulo $6$. We show that there are infinitely many primes of the form $p^2 + nq^2$ with both $p$ and $q$ prime, and obtain an asymptotic for their number. In particular, when $n = 4$ we verify the `Gaussian…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Ben Green , Mehtaab Sawhney
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