Differences Between Consecutive Primes

DOI10.1112/S0024611598000021MaRDI QIDQ4354313zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. S. Peck

Publication date 16 September 1997

Published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1112/s0024611598000021

zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet seriesdistribution of consecutive primessieve methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Distribution of primes (11N05) Applications of sieve methods (11N36)

Review text

Let \(p_n\) be the \(n\)-th prime. This paper is concerned with proving the following result on the distribution of consecutive primes. Theorem. \[ \sum_{p_{n+1}-p_n> x^{\frac12}, p_n\leq x}p_{n+1}-p_n\;\ll\;x^{\frac{25}{36}+ \varepsilon}. \tag{1} \] The exponent of \(x\) in this theorem improves on the work of Heath-Brown who proved (1) with exponent \(\frac34\). On the Riemann hypothesis one can prove (1) with exponent \(\frac12\). The proof of the theorem starts off with the Heath-Brown--Linnik identity, which leads to a formula giving the number of primes in an interval in terms of coefficients of certain Dirichlet series. The author then estimates the coefficients by using among other things the information which can be gained from Montgomery's mean value theorem and Huxley's version of the Halász lemma. Furthermore by using familiar sieve arguments he is able to discard some of the coefficients, allowing an improvement over the previous result of Heath-Brown.

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