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We prove that there are arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions of primes. There are three major ingredients. The first is Szemeredi's theorem, which asserts that any subset of the integers of positive density contains progressions of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-09-23 Ben Green , Terence Tao

{\bf In the fourth extended version of this article, we provide a comprehensive historical survey of 200 different proofs of famous Euclid's theorem on the infinitude of prime numbers (300 {\small B.C.}--2022)}. The author is trying to…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2023-07-26 Romeo Meštrović

Using a sieve-theoretic argument, we show that almost all gaps $(p_n, p_{n+1})$ between consecutive primes $p_n, p_{n+1}$ contain a natural number $m$ whose least prime factor $p(m)$ is at least the length $p_{n+1} - p_n$ of the gap,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Ayla Gafni , Terence Tao

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

Some mean value theorems in the style of Bombieri-Vinogradov's theorem are discussed. They concern binary and ternary additive problems with primes in arithmetic progressions and short intervals. Nontrivial estimates for some of these mean…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2012-12-19 Karin Halupczok

A number $n$ is practical if every integer in $[1,n]$ can be expressed as a subset sum of the positive divisors of $n$. We consider the distribution of practical numbers that are also shifted primes, improving a theorem of Guo and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Carl Pomerance , Andreas Weingartner

Improving earlier estimates of several authors we show that the number E(X) of Goldbach exceptional even integers (that is, even integers which cannot be written as the sum of two primesw) below X satisfies tho bound E(X) < X^0.72 for…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Janos Pintz

Typically, one expects that there are around x\prod_{p\not\in P, p <= x} (1-1/p) integers up to x, all of whose prime factors come from the set P. Of course for some choices of P one may get rather more integers, and for some choices of P…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Andrew Granville , Kannan Soundararajan

TO BE PUBLISHED BY ISRAEL JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS. We study the mean $\sum_{x\in\mathcal{X}} \bigl|\sum_{p\le N}{}u_p e(xp)\bigr|^{\ell}$ when $\ell$ covers the full range $[2,\infty)$ and $\mathcal{X}\subset\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}$ is a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Olivier Ramaré

For estimating a positive normal mean, Zhang and Woodroofe (2003) as well as Roe and Woodroofe (2000) investigate 100($1-\alpha)%$ HPD credible sets associated with priors obtained as the truncation of noninformative priors onto the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Éric Marchand , William E. Strawderman

Under Cram\'er's conjecture concerning the prime numbers, we prove that for any $x>1$, there exists a real $A=A(x)>1$ for which the formula $[A^{n^x}]$ (where $[]$ denotes the integer part) gives a prime number for any positive integer $n$.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bakir Farhi

We prove the existence of primitive sets (sets of integers in which no element divides another) in which the gap between any two consecutive terms is substantially smaller than the best known upper bound for the gaps in the sequence of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-06 Nathan McNew

In this article, we derive better results concerning powered numbers in short intervals, both unconditionally and conditionally on the $abc$-conjecture. We make use of sieve method, a polynomial identity, and a recent breakthrough result on…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Tsz Ho Chan

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

In this paper we establish a function field analogue of a conjecture in number theory which is a combination of several famous conjectures, including the Hardy-Littlewood prime tuple conjecture, conjectures on the number of primes in…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-10-07 Efrat Bank , Lior Bary-Soroker

A pair of odd primes is said to be symmetric if each prime is congruent to one modulo their difference. A theorem from 1996 by Fletcher, Lindgren, and the third author provides an upper bound on the number of primes up to x that belong to a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-27 William Banks , Paul Pollack , Carl Pomerance

Let $(a_n)_{n \geq 1}$ be a sequence of distinct positive integers. The metric theory of minimal gaps for the sequence $\{\alpha a_n \text{ mod }1, 1\leq n \leq N\}$ as $N \to \infty$ was initiated by Rudnick, who established that the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Jewel Mahajan

In 1976, Gallagher showed that the Hardy--Littlewood conjectures on prime $k$-tuples imply that the distribution of primes in log-size intervals is Poissonian. He did so by computing average values of the singular series constants over…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Vivian Kuperberg

We prove some theorems which give sufficient conditions for the existence of prime numbers among the terms of a sequence which has pairwise relatively prime terms.

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2015-01-14 Konstantinos N. Gaitanas

We prove that analogues of the Hardy-Littlewood generalised twin prime conjecture for almost primes hold on average. Our main theorem establishes an asymptotic formula for the number of integers $n=p_1p_2 \leq X$ such that $n+h$ is a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-20 Natalie Evans