Small gaps between products of two primes

DOI10.1112/PLMS/PDN046MaRDI QIDQ3625057zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors János Pintz, C. Y. Yildirim, Daniel Alan Goldston, Sidney W. Graham

Publication date 7 May 2009

Published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0609615, http://real.mtak.hu/61545/1/0609615.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

almost primesgapsSelberg's sieve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Distribution of integers with specified multiplicative constraints (11N25) Applications of sieve methods (11N36)

Abstract: Let $q_n$ denote the $n^{th}$ number that is a product of exactly two distinct primes. We prove that ${\displaystyle }$liminf_{n o infty} (q_{n+1}-q_n) le 6.${\displaystyle }$ This sharpens an earlier result of the authors (arXivMath NT/0506067), which had 26 in place of 6. More generally, we prove that if $u$ is any positive integer, then ${\displaystyle }$ liminf_{n o infty} (q_{n+

u}-q_n) le C( u) = u e^{

u-gamma} (1+o(1)).${\displaystyle }$ We also prove several other results on the representation of numbers with exactly two prime factors by linear forms.

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