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Reasoning about Primes (II)

General Mathematics 2015-08-11 v2

Abstract

We prove a couple of related theorems including Legendre's and Andrica's conjecture. Key to the proofs is an algorithm that delivers the exact upper bound on the greatest gap that can occur in a combinatorial game with the set of P primes <= p in their doubled primorial interval 0..p#..2p# where we relax a constraint that the primes usually follow: if the bound g(P)=2p-5 for maximizing the gap length applies with more degrees of freedom, it also applies in the more constrained prime game as g(P)<=2p-5, at least in the subregion [1,p2][1,{p'}^2] where no other primes have influence (p' notates the next other prime). From here proving the mentioned theorems is straightforward, for example Legendre's interval ]n2,(n+1)2[]n^2,(n+1)^2[ is located completely inside the valid subregion and is greater than the greatest possible gap. Another consequence is that there must be a prime within n+-(sqrt(n)-1) for all n>1. For small numbers the proofs are verified using the R statistical language.

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@article{arxiv.1411.6582,
  title  = {Reasoning about Primes (II)},
  author = {Jens Oehlschlägel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.6582},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

v1: 27 pages, 4 figures This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to a crucial error in Lemma 8.4

R2 v1 2026-06-22T07:10:24.481Z