Limit points and long gaps between primes

DOI10.1093/QMATH/HAW003MaRDI QIDQ2814321zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tristan Freiberg, Roger C. Baker

Publication date 21 June 2016

Published in The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.08054

zbMATH Keywords

chains of normalized consecutive prime gapsnormalized prime gapsset of limit points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: Let $d_n=p_{n+1}-p_n$, where $p_n$ denotes the $n$th smallest prime, and let $R(T)=logTlo{g}_{2}Tlo{g}_{4}T/(lo{g}_{3}T{)}^2$ (the "Erd{H o}s--Rankin" function). We consider the sequence $(d_n/R(p_n))$ of normalized prime gaps, and show that its limit point set contains at least $25\mathrm{\%}$ of nonnegative real numbers. We also show that the same result holds if $R(T)$ is replaced by any "reasonable" function that tends to infinity more slowly than $R(T)lo{g}_{3}T$. We also consider "chains" of normalized prime gaps. Our proof combines breakthrough work of Maynard and Tao on bounded gaps between primes with subsequent developments of Ford, Green, Konyagin, Maynard and Tao on long gaps between consecutive primes.

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