Prime difference champions

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-55857-4_9zbMATH Open1470.11233arXiv1612.02938OpenAlexW2561669577MaRDI QIDQ2232035FDOQ2232035

Authors: Yanyan Li 

Publication date: 4 October 2021

Abstract: A Prime Difference Champion (PDC) for primes up to $x$ is defined to be any element of the set of one or more differences that occur most frequently among all positive differences between primes $lex$. Assuming an appropriate form of the Hardy-Littlewood Prime Pair Conjecture we can prove that for sufficiently large $x$ the PDCs run through the primorials. Numerical results also provide evidence for this conjecture as well as other interesting phenomena associated with prime differences. Unconditionally we prove that the PDCs go to infinity and further have asymptotically the same number of prime factors when counted logarithmically as the primorials.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.02938

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zbMATH Keywords

sieve methodssingular seriesjumping championdifferences between primesHardy-Littlewood prime pair conjecturemaximal prime gapsprimorial numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Distribution of primes (11N05) Goldbach-type theorems; other additive questions involving primes (11P32) Applications of sieve methods (11N36)

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