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The $k$-Tuple Jumping Champions among Consecutive Primes

Number Theory 2011-08-19 v1

Abstract

For any real xx and any integer k1k\ge1, we say that a set Dk\mathcal{D}_{k} of kk distinct integers is a kk-tuple jumping champion if it is the most common differences that occurs among k+1k+1 consecutive primes less than or equal to xx. For k=1k=1, it's known as the jumping champion introduced by J. H. Conway. In 1999 A. Odlyzko, M. Rubinstein, and M. Wolf announced the Jumping Champion Conjecture that the jumping champions greater than 1 are 4 and the primorials 2, 6, 30, 210, 2310,.... They also made a weaker and possibly more accessible conjecture that any fixed prime pp divides all sufficiently large jumping champions. These two conjectures were proved by Goldston and Ledoan under the assumption of appropriate forms of the Hardy-Littlewood conjecture recently. In the present paper we consider the situation for any k2k\ge2 and prove that any fixed prime pp divides every element of all sufficiently large kk-tuple jumping champions under the assumption that the Hardy-Littlewood prime k+1k+1-tuple conjecture holds uniformly for Dk[2,logk+1x]\mathcal{D}_k\subset[2,\log^{k+1}x]. With a stronger form of the Hardy-Littlewood conjecture, we also proved that, for any sufficiently large kk-tuple jumping champion, the gcdgcd of elements in it is square-free.

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@article{arxiv.1108.3680,
  title  = {The $k$-Tuple Jumping Champions among Consecutive Primes},
  author = {Wu Xiaosheng and Feng Shaoji},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.3680},
  year   = {2011}
}
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