Prime-representing functions and Hausdorff dimension

DOI10.1007/S10474-021-01170-6MaRDI QIDQ2236652zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 25 October 2021

Published in Acta Mathematica Hungarica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.04038

zbMATH Keywords

distribution of prime numbersHausdorff dimensionprime-representing function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Primes (11A41) Metric theory of other algorithms and expansions; measure and Hausdorff dimension (11K55)

Abstract: In 2010, Matom"{a}ki investigated the set of $A>1$ such that the integer part of $A^{c^k}$ is a prime number for every $kinmathbbN$, where $cgeq2$ is any fixed real number. She proved that the set is uncountable, nowhere dense, and has Lebesgue measure $0$. In this article, we show that the set has Hausdorff dimension $1$.

Review text

A function \(f:\mathbb{N}\rightarrow \mathbb{N}\) is \textit{prime-representing} if \(f(k)\) is a prime for all \(k\in \mathbb{N}\).\par Suppose that \(c_i\ge 2\), \(i=1,2,\ldots\), and put \(C_n=c_1c_2\cdots c_n\). \textit{Kaisa Matomäki} showed in [Acta Math. Hung. 128, No. 4, 307--314 (2010; Zbl 1240.11101)] that the set of \(A>2\) such that \(f_A=\lfloor A^{C_n}\rfloor\) is prime-representing is \par -- uncountable, \par -- nowhere dense, \par -- and has Lebesgue measure \(0\). Here the author proves that this set of \(A\) has Hausdorff dimension \(1\) if \((c_k)_{k\in \mathbb{N}}\) is bounded. Note that, on the one hand, Hausdorff dimension \(1\) is stronger than uncountable, on the other hand, the boundedness of \((c_k)_{k\in \mathbb{N}}\) is needed in the proof.

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