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The prime counting function inequality $\pi(x+y) < \pi(x)+\pi(y)$, which is known as Hardy-Littlewood conjecture, has been established for a variety of cases such as $ \delta x \leq y \leq x$, where $0< \delta \leq 1$, and $x \leq y\leq x…

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

We investigate the approximation to the number of primes in arithmetic progressions given by Vaughan. Instead of averaging the expected error term over all residue classes to modules in a given range, here we only consider subsets of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-31 Claus Bauer

We describe an expansion of Legendre polynomials, analogous to the Taylor expansion, to approximate arbitrary functions. We show that the polynomial coefficients in Legendre expansion, therefore the whole series, converge to zero much more…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-03-13 Michael A. Cohen , Can Ozan Tan

We introduce a refinement of the classical Liouville function to primes in arithmetic progressions. Using this, we discover new biases in the appearances of primes in a given arithmetic progression in the prime factorizations of integers.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-24 Peter Humphries , Snehal M. Shekatkar , Tian An Wong

The Legendre transform is an important tool in theoretical physics, playing a critical role in classical mechanics, statistical mechanics, and thermodynamics. Yet, in typical undergraduate or graduate courses, the power of motivation and…

Physics Education · Physics 2015-05-13 R. K. P. Zia , Edward F. Redish , Susan R. McKay

In this article, we will use elementary number theory techniques to investigate a sequence of integers defined by a sifting process called the lucky numbers. Ulam introduced lucky numbers as a sieve-based analogue of prime numbers. We…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Marthinus Michael Dreeckmeier

In this paper, we are going to prove a famous problem concerning prime numbers. Bertrand postulate states that there is always a prime p with n < p < 2n, if n > 1. Bertrand postulate is not a newer one to be proven, in fact, after his…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-30 Bijoy Rahman Arif

In this paper we study a family of binary Legendre sequences and its family complexity. Family complexity is a pseudorandomness measure introduced by Ahlswede et.~al.~in 2003. A lower bound on the family complexity of a family based on the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Yaǧmur Çakıroǧlu , Oǧuz Yayla

Taking $r>0$, let $\pi_{2r}(x)$ denote the number of prime pairs $(p, p+2r)$ with $p\le x$. The prime-pair conjecture of Hardy and Littlewood (1923) asserts that $\pi_{2r}(x)\sim 2C_{2r} {\rm li}_2(x)$ with an explicit constant $C_{2r}>0$.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Jaap Korevaar , Herman te Riele

In this note we will present how Euler's investigations on various different subjects lead to certain properties of the Legendre polynomials. More precisely, we will show that the generating function and the difference equation for the…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2023-09-01 Alexander Aycock

It is well known that the arithmetic nature of Mills' prime-representing constant is uncertain: we do not know if Mills' constant is a rational or irrational number. In the case of other prime-representing constants, irrationality can be…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Juan L. Varona

Currently there is no known efficient formula for primes. Besides that, prime numbers have great importance in e.g., information technology such as public-key cryptography, and their position and possible or impossible functional generation…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Sandor Kristyan

The main purpose of this paper is using a very simple constructive method to study an old number theory problem related to the Legendre symbol modulo p, and completely solved it. The proving method of the result is purely elementary and has…

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Assuming the Riemann hypothesis, we prove the latest explicit version of the prime number theorem for short intervals. Using this result, and assuming the generalised Riemann hypothesis for Dirichlet $L$-functions is true, we then establish…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-10 Ethan S. Lee

To determine whether a number is congruent or not is an old and difficult topic and progress is slow. The paper presents a new theorem when a prime number is a congruent number or not. The proof is not necessarily any simpler or shorter…

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The problem of the least prime number in an arithmetic progression is one of the most important topics in Number Theory. In [11], we are the first to study the relations between this problem and Goldbach's conjecture. In this paper, we…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2010-02-03 Shaohua Zhang

The chronicle of prime numbers travel back thousands of years in human history. Not only the traits of prime numbers have surprised people, but also all those endeavors made for ages to find a pattern in the appearance of prime numbers has…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2022-09-27 Tashreef Muhammad , G. M. Shahariar , Tahsin Aziz , Mohammad Shafiul Alam

A deep conjecture of Montgomery and Soundararajan on the distribution of prime numbers in short intervals of length $h$ says that the third moment is bounded by $\ll h^{\frac {3}{2}-c}$ for some $c>0$. There is in the literature some…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Tomos Parry

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

Calculating the primordial bispectrum predicted by a model of inflation and comparing it to what we see in the sky is very computationally intensive, necessitating layers of approximations and limiting the models which can be constrained.…

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