On coprimality of consecutive elements in certain sequences
Abstract
The study of finding blocks of primes in certain arithmetic sequences is one of the classical problems in number theory. It is also very interesting to study blocks of consecutive elements in such sequences that are pairwise coprime. In this context, we show that if is a twice continuously differentiable real-valued function on such that as and , then there exist arbitrarily long blocks of pairwise coprime consecutive elements in the sequence . This result refines the qualitative part of a recent result by the first author, Drmota and M\"{u}llner. We also prove that there exists a subset having upper Banach density one such that for any two distinct integers , the integers and are pairwise coprime. Further, we show that there exist arbitrarily long blocks of consecutive elements in the sequence such that no two of them are pairwise coprime.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2506.20948,
title = {On coprimality of consecutive elements in certain sequences},
author = {Jean-Marc Deshouillers and Sunil Naik},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.20948},
year = {2025}
}