Positive proportion of small gaps between consecutive primes

DOI10.5486/PMD.2011.5140MaRDI QIDQ2898848zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors János Pintz, C. Y. Yildirim, Daniel Alan Goldston

Publication date 12 July 2012

Published in Publicationes Mathematicae Debrecen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.3986

zbMATH Keywords

differences between consecutive primesprime gaps, sieve methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We prove that a positive proportion of the gaps between consecutive primes are short gaps of length less than any fixed fraction of the average spacing between primes.

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