Small gaps between primes exist.

DOI10.3792/PJAA.82.61MaRDI QIDQ863751zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Daniel Alan Goldston, C. Y. Yildirim, Yoichi Motohashi, János Pintz

Publication date 7 February 2007

Published in Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0505300, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.pja/1146576181

zbMATH Keywords

sieve methodsgaps between primesprime tuples

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Distribution of primes (11N05) Applications of sieve methods (11N36)

Abstract: In the recent preprint [3], Goldston, Pintz, and Y{i}ld{i}r{i}m established, among other things, ${\displaystyle }$ liminf_{n oinfty}{p_{n+1}-p_noverlog p_n}=0,leqno(0) ${\displaystyle }$ with $p_n$ the $n$th prime. In the present article, which is essentially self-contained, we shall develop a simplified account of the method used in [3]. While [3] also includes quantitative versions of $(0)$, we are concerned here solely with proving the qualitative $(0)$, which still exhibits all the essentials of the method. We also show here that an improvement of the Bombieri--Vinogradov prime number theorem would give rise infinitely often to bounded differences between consecutive primes. We include a short expository last section. Detailed discussions of quantitative results and a historical review will appear in the publication version of [3] and its continuations.

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