Prime Number Races

DOI10.2307/27641834MaRDI QIDQ5440754zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Andrew Granville, Greg Martin

Publication date 5 February 2008

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0408319

zbMATH Keywords

primes in arithmetic progressionsprime number racescomparative prime number theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Distribution of primes (11N05) Primes in congruence classes (11N13) Analytic computations (11Y35)

Abstract: This is a survey article on prime number races. Chebyshev noticed in the first half of the nineteenth century that for any given value of x, there always seem to be more primes of the form 4n+3 less than x then there are of the form 4n+1. Similar observations have been made with primes of the form 3n+2 and 3n+1, with primes of the form 10n+3/10n+7 and 10n+1/10n+9, and many others besides. More generally, one can consider primes of the form qn+a, qn+b, qn+c, >... for our favorite constants q, a, b, c, ... and try to figure out which forms are "preferred" over the others. In this paper, we describe these phenomena in greater detail and explain the efforts that have been made at understanding them.

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