Jumping champions and gaps between consecutive primes

DOI10.1142/S179304211100471XMaRDI QIDQ3173448zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniel Alan Goldston, Andrew Ledoan

Publication date 10 October 2011

Published in International Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.2960

zbMATH Keywords

sieve methodssingular seriesdifferences between consecutive primesjumping championHardy-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)

Abstract: The most common difference that occurs among the consecutive primes less than or equal to $x$ is called a jumping champion. Occasionally there are ties. Therefore there can be more than one jumping champion for a given $x$. In 1999 A. Odlyzko, M. Rubinstein, and M. Wolf provided heuristic and empirical evidence in support of the conjecture that the numbers greater than 1 that are jumping champions are 4 and the primorials 2, 6, 30, 210, 2310,... As a step towards proving this conjecture they introduced a second weaker conjecture that any fixed prime $p$ divides all sufficiently large jumping champions. In this paper we extend a method of P. ErdH{o}s and E. G. Straus from 1980 to prove that the second conjecture follows directly from the prime pair conjecture of G. H. Hardy and J. E. Littlewood.

Recommendations

• The jumping champion conjecture
• Gaps between consecutive primes (after Goldston, Pintz, Yıldırım et al.)
• Jumping Champions
• Large gaps between primes
• The k-tuple jumping champions among consecutive primes

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• Jumping Champions
• New maximal prime gaps and first occurrences

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• The jumping champion conjecture
• Prime difference champions
• How do prime numbers jump?
• The k-tuple jumping champions among consecutive primes
• The jumping champions of the Farey series
• Jumping Champions

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