Improved Bounds on Brun’s Constant

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-36568-4_25MaRDI QIDQ3298041zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dave Platt, Tim Trudgian

Publication date 21 July 2020

Published in Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.01925

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Brun's constant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Distribution of primes (11N05) Sieves (11N35) Goldbach-type theorems; other additive questions involving primes (11P32)

Abstract: Brun's constant is $B=su{m}_{pin{P}_2}{p}^{-1}+(p+2{)}^{-1}$, where the summation is over all twin primes. We improve the unconditional bounds on Brun's constant to $1.840503<B<2.288513$, which is about a 13% improvement on the previous best published result.

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