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

DOI10.1017/S0305004118000592MaRDI QIDQ5207975zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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)

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

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)

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 $phi(n)$.

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