The $k$-Tuple Jumping Champions among Consecutive Primes
Abstract
For any real and any integer , we say that a set of distinct integers is a -tuple jumping champion if it is the most common differences that occurs among consecutive primes less than or equal to . For , 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 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 and prove that any fixed prime divides every element of all sufficiently large -tuple jumping champions under the assumption that the Hardy-Littlewood prime -tuple conjecture holds uniformly for . With a stronger form of the Hardy-Littlewood conjecture, we also proved that, for any sufficiently large -tuple jumping champion, the 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}
}