Prime numbers in logarithmic intervals
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Abstract:
Let $X$ be a large parameter. We will first give a new estimate for the integral moments of primes in short intervals of the type $(p,p+h]$, where $p\leq X$ is a prime number and $h=o(X)$. Then we will apply this to prove that for every $\lambda >1/2$ there exists a positive proportion of primes $p\leq X$ such that the interval $(p,p+ \lambda \log X]$ contains at least a prime number. As a consequence we improve Cheer and Goldston’s result on the size of real numbers $\lambda >1$ with the property that there is a positive proportion of integers $m\leq X$ such that the interval $(m,m+ \lambda \log X]$ contains no primes. We also prove other results concerning the moments of the gaps between consecutive primes and about the positive proportion of integers $m\leq X$ such that the interval $(m,m+ \lambda \log X]$ 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 $p\leq X$ such that the interval $(p,p+ \lambda \log X]$ contains no primes.References
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Additional Information
- 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
- MR Author ID: 354780
- ORCID: 0000-0003-2723-554X
- 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
- Received by editor(s): September 17, 2008
- Published electronically: November 17, 2009
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American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - 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
- MathSciNet review: 2584615