Large gaps between consecutive prime numbers containing perfect powers
Number Theory
2014-11-25 v1
Abstract
For any positive integer , we show that infinitely often, perfect -th powers appear inside very long gaps between consecutive prime numbers, that is, gaps of size where is the smaller of the two primes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1411.6543,
title = {Large gaps between consecutive prime numbers containing perfect powers},
author = {Kevin Ford and D. R. Heath-Brown and Sergei Konyagin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.6543},
year = {2014}
}