Upper bounds for prime gaps related to Firoozbakht's conjecture

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Authors Alexei Kourbatov

Publication date 16 December 2015

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03042, http://www.emis.de/journals/JIS/VOL18/Kourbatov/kourb7.html

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Cramér conjectureFiroozbakht conjectureprime gap

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Distribution of primes (11N05)

Abstract: We study two kinds of conjectural bounds for the prime gap after the k-th prime $p_k$: (A) $p_{k+1}<(p_k{)}^{1+1/k}$ and (B) $p_{k+1}-p_k<lo{g}^2{p}_k-log{p}_k-b$ for $k>9$. The upper bound (A) is equivalent to Firoozbakht's conjecture. We prove that (A) implies (B) with $b=1$; on the other hand, (B) with $b=1.17$ implies (A). We also give other sufficient conditions for (A) that have the form (B) with $bo1$ as $koinfty$.

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• Prime gaps and the Firoozbakht conjecture
• Golomb’s Conjecture on Prime Gaps
• Using Bonse's inequality to find upper bounds on prime gaps
• Conjectures about primes and cyclic numbers
• Cyclic numbers and gaps
• Gaps Between Consecutive Primes and the Exponential Distribution

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