Prime numbers in logarithmic intervals
Authors:
Danilo Bazzanella, Alessandro Languasco and Alessandro Zaccagnini
Journal:
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 362 (2010), 2667-2684
MSC (2010):
Primary 11N05; Secondary 11A41
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-09-05009-0
Published electronically:
November 17, 2009
MathSciNet review:
2584615
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Abstract: Let be a large parameter. We will first give a new estimate for the integral moments of primes in short intervals of the type
, where
is a prime number and
. Then we will apply this to prove that for every
there exists a positive proportion of primes
such that the interval
contains at least a prime number. As a consequence we improve Cheer and Goldston's result on the size of real numbers
with the property that there is a positive proportion of integers
such that the interval
contains no primes. We also prove other results concerning the moments of the gaps between consecutive primes and about the positive proportion of integers
such that the interval
contains at least a prime number. The last applications of these techniques are two theorems (the first one unconditional and the second one in which we assume the validity of the Riemann Hypothesis and of a form of the Montgomery pair correlation conjecture) on the positive proportion of primes
such that the interval
contains no primes.
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Danilo Bazzanella
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
Email:
danilo.bazzanella@polito.it
Alessandro Languasco
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica Pura e Applicata, Università di Padova, Via Trieste 63, 35121 Padova, Italy
Email:
languasco@math.unipd.it
Alessandro Zaccagnini
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze, 53/a, Campus Universitario, 43100 Parma, Italy
Email:
alessandro.zaccagnini@unipr.it
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-09-05009-0
Received by editor(s):
September 17, 2008
Published electronically:
November 17, 2009
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