Determining Mills' Constant and a Note on Honaker's Problem

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Authors Chris K. Caldwell, Yuanyou Cheng

Publication date 30 October 2006

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.4883, https://eudml.org/doc/53104, http://www.emis.de/journals/JIS/VOL8/Caldwell/caldwell78.html

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Hoheisel theoremHonaker's problemMills' constantprime gaps

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Distribution of primes (11N05) Analytic computations (11Y35)

Abstract: In 1947 Mills proved that there exists a constant $A$ such that $lfloor{A}^{3^n}floor$ is a prime for every positive integer $n$. Determining $A$ requires determining an effective Hoheisel type result on the primes in short intervals - though most books ignore this difficulty. Under the Riemann Hypothesis, we show that there exists at least one prime between every pair of consecutive cubes and determine (given RH) that the least possible value of Mills' constant $A$ does begin with 1.3063778838. We calculate this value to 6850 decimal places by determining the associated primes to over 6000 digits and probable primes (PRPs) to over 60000 digits. We also apply the Cram'er-Granville Conjecture to Honaker's problem in a related context.

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• Unconditional prime-representing functions, following Mills
• On Faster Integer Calculations Using Non-arithmetic Primitives
• A variation on Mills-like prime-representing functions
• A couple of transcendental prime-representing constants
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• Topological properties and algebraic independence of sets of prime‐representing constants
• Transcendency of variants of Mills' constant
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