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We develop conjectures and theorems expressing the idea that the prime sequence exhibits computational irreducibility in the transition from one prime to its successor. Informally, given a prime pp p, no general algorithm can compute the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Ben Goertzel , Bill Lauritzen

In the recent preprint [3], Goldston, Pintz, and Y{\i}ld{\i}r{\i}m established, among other things, $$ \liminf_{n\to\infty}{p_{n+1}-p_n\over\log p_n}=0,\leqno(0) $$ with $p_n$ the $n$th prime. In the present article, which is essentially…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 D. A. Goldston , Y. Motohashi , J. Pintz , C. Y. Yildirim

This paper presents a distinctive prime detection approach. This method use GM-(n+1) sequences to effectively eliminate complex numbers. The sequences, which consist of odd a number of (n+1), exclude all components except for the initial…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Fadwa Hamdi Barakat

We give an equivalent form of the Twin prime conjecture relating to a symmetric property that is observed for terms present in a certain sequence of arithmetic progressions defined for a pair of co-prime integers.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Srikanth Cherukupally

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

We consider primitive divisors of terms of integer sequences defined by quadratic polynomials. Apart from some small counterexamples, when a term has a primitive divisor, that primitive divisor is unique. It seems likely that the number of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-05-28 G. Everest , S. Stevens , D. Tamsett , T. Ward

We introduce a sieve for counting twin primes up to a given range. Our method depends on a parameter ${\lambda}_x$ and the estimation of the number of twin primes obtained as a result, is called a fundamental structure of the distribution…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-11-09 Madieyna Diouf

We provide upper bounds on the density of a symmetric generalized arithmetic progression lacking nonzero elements of the form h(n) for natural numbers n, or h(p) with p prime, for appropriate polynomials h with integer coefficients. The…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-10 Ernie Croot , Neil Lyall , Alex Rice

We generalize current known distribution results on Shanks--R\'enyi prime number races to the case where arbitrarily many residue classes are involved. Our method handles both the classical case that goes back to Chebyshev and function…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Lucile Devin

Given a matrix $A\in \mathrm{GL}_d(\mathbb{Z})$. We study the pseudorandomness of vectors $\mathbf{u}_n$ generated by a linear recurrent relation of the form $$ \mathbf{u}_{n+1} \equiv A \mathbf{u}_n \pmod {p^t}, \qquad n = 0, 1, \ldots, $$…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-09 László Mérai , Igor E. Shparlinski

We study pairs of consecutive odd numbers through a straightforward indexing. We focus in particular on twin primes and their distribution. With a counting argument, we calculate the limit of an alternating sum that is equal to 1 which…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Marc Wolf , FranÇOis Wolf , FranÇOis-Xavier Villemin

We study the existence of products of primes in arithmetic progressions, building on the work of Ramar\'e and Walker. One of our main results is that if $q$ is a large modulus, then any invertible residue class mod $q$ contains a product of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-12 Barnabás Szabó

In this paper, we establish some nontrivial and effective upper bounds for the least common multiple of consecutive terms of a finite arithmetic progression. Precisely, we prove that for any two coprime positive integers $a$ and $b$, with…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-17 Sid Ali Bousla

We suggest other models of sieve generated sequences like the Sieve of Eratosthenes to explain randomness properties of the prime numbers, like the twin prime conjecture, the lim sup conjecture, the Riemann conjecture, and the prime number…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-09-06 Leonard E. Baum

We prove the infinitude of shifted primes $p-1$ without prime factors above $p^{0.2844}$. This refines $p^{0.2961}$ from Baker and Harman in 1998. Consequently, we obtain an improved lower bound on the the distribution of Carmichael…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-18 Jared Duker Lichtman

We make an application of ideas from partition theory to a problem in multiplicative number theory. We propose a deterministic model of prime number distribution, from first principles related to properties of integer partitions, that…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Aidan Botkin , Madeline L. Dawsey , David J. Hemmer , Matthew R. Just , Robert Schneider

We study arithmetic progressions in primes with common differences as small as possible. Tao and Ziegler showed that, for any $k \geq 3$ and $N$ large, there exist non-trivial $k$-term arithmetic progressions in (any positive density subset…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-09-17 Xuancheng Shao

This article is a survey based on our earlier paper ("The 'Vertical' Generalization of the Binary Goldbach's Conjecture as Applied on 'Iterative' Primes with (Recursive) Prime Indexes (i-primeths)" [11]), a paper in which we have proposed a…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2020-10-05 Andrei-Lucian Drăgoi

In this paper we study the problem of detecting prime numbers between all consecutive cubes. Firstly, we use a large computation to show that there is always a prime between $n^3$ and $(n+1)^3$ for $n^3\leq 1.649\cdot 10^{40}$. In addition,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Daniel R. Johnston , Jonathan P. Sorenson , Simon N. Thomas , Jonathan E. Webster

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