The distribution of consecutive prime biases and sums of sawtooth random variables

DOI10.1017/S0305004118000592zbMATH Open1466.11063arXiv1709.06168OpenAlexW2962904514WikidataQ129451631 ScholiaQ129451631MaRDI QIDQ5207975FDOQ5207975

Authors: Robert J. Lemke Oliver, Kannan Soundararajan 

Publication date: 14 January 2020

Published in: Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In recent work, we considered the frequencies of patterns of consecutive primes $pmodq$ and numerically found biases toward certain patterns and against others. We made a conjecture explaining these biases, the dominant factor in which permits an easy description but fails to distinguish many patterns that have seemingly very different frequencies. There was a secondary factor in our conjecture accounting for this additional variation, but it was given only by a complicated expression whose distribution was not easily understood. Here, we study this term, which proves to be connected to both the Fourier transform of classical Dedekind sums and the error term in the asymptotic formula for the sum of $phi(n)$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.06168

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zbMATH Keywords

consecutive primessawtooth random variables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Dedekind eta function, Dedekind sums (11F20) Goldbach-type theorems; other additive questions involving primes (11P32) Primes in congruence classes (11N13) Distribution of integers in special residue classes (11N69)

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