Chains of Large Gaps Between Primes

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-92777-0_1MaRDI QIDQ3119760zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kevin Ford, James Maynard, Terence Tao

Publication date 12 March 2019

Published in Irregularities in the Distribution of Prime Numbers (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.04468

zbMATH Keywords

chainshypergraph covering theoremlarge gapsMaier matrix methodprimessieve weights

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Distribution of primes (11N05) Distribution of integers with specified multiplicative constraints (11N25)

Abstract: Let $p_n$ denote the $n$-th prime, and for any $kgeq1$ and sufficiently large $X$, define the quantity ${\displaystyle }$ G_k(X) := max_{p_{n+k} leq X} min( p_{n+1}-p_n, dots, p_{n+k}-p_{n+k-1} ),${\displaystyle }$ which measures the occurrence of chains of $k$ consecutive large gaps of primes. Recently, with Green and Konyagin, the authors showed that [ G_1(X) gg frac{log X log log Xloglogloglog X}{log log log X}] for sufficiently large $X$. In this note, we combine the arguments in that paper with the Maier matrix method to show that [ G_k(X) gg frac{1}{k^2} frac{log X log log Xloglogloglog X}{log log log X}] for any fixed $k$ and sufficiently large $X$. The implied constant is effective and independent of $k$.

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