Large gaps between consecutive prime numbers

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2016.183.3.4MaRDI QIDQ291020zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Kevin Ford, Sergei Konyagin, Terence Tao, Ben Green

Publication date 6 June 2016

Published in Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.4505

zbMATH Keywords

primessievelong gapsprogressionRankin

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic combinatorics; higher degree uniformity (11B30) Distribution of primes (11N05) Applications of sieve methods (11N36) Primes in congruence classes (11N13)

Abstract: Let $G(X)$ denote the size of the largest gap between consecutive primes below $X$. Answering a question of Erdos, we show that ${\displaystyle }$G(X) geq f(X) frac{log X log log X log log log log X}{(log log log X)^2},${\displaystyle }$ where $f(X)$ is a function tending to infinity with $X$. Our proof combines existing arguments with a random construction covering a set of primes by arithmetic progressions. As such, we rely on recent work on the existence and distribution of long arithmetic progressions consisting entirely of primes.

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