Unconditional prime-representing functions, following Mills

DOI10.1080/00029890.2020.1751560MaRDI QIDQ3304747zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christian Elsholtz

Publication date 3 August 2020

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.01285

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Primes (11A41) Distribution of primes (11N05)

Abstract: Mills proved that there exists a real constant $A>1$ such that for all $ninmathbbN$ the values $lfloor{A}^{3^n}floor$ are prime numbers. No explicit value of $A$ is known, but assuming the Riemann hypothesis one can choose $A=1.3063778838ldots.$ Here we give a first unconditional variant: $lfloor{A}^{10^{10n}}floor$ is prime, where $A=1.00536773279814724017ldots$ can be computed to millions of digits. Similarly, $lfloor{A}^{3^{13n}}floor$ is prime, with $A=3.8249998073439146171615551375ldots.$

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