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Bounded length intervals containing two primes and an almost-prime II

Number Theory 2013-06-06 v1

Abstract

Zhang has shown there are infinitely many intervals of bounded length containing two primes. It appears that the current techniques cannot prove that there are infinitely many intervals of bounded length containing three primes, even if strong conjectures such as the Elliott-Halberstam conjecture are assumed. We show that there are infinitely many intervals of length at most 10810^8 which contain two primes and a number with at most 31 prime factors.

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@article{arxiv.1306.0948,
  title  = {Bounded length intervals containing two primes and an almost-prime II},
  author = {James Maynard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.0948},
  year   = {2013}
}

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10 pages

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