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POSITIVE PROPORTION OF SHORT INTERVALS CONTAINING A PRESCRIBED NUMBER OF PRIMES

Part of: Multiplicative number theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2019

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DANIELE MASTROSTEFANO*
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University of Warwick, Mathematics Institute, Zeeman Building, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK email [email protected]
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Abstract

We prove that for every $m\geq 0$ there exists an $\unicode[STIX]{x1D700}=\unicode[STIX]{x1D700}(m)>0$ such that if $0<\unicode[STIX]{x1D706}<\unicode[STIX]{x1D700}$ and $x$ is sufficiently large in terms of $m$ and $\unicode[STIX]{x1D706}$, then

$$\begin{eqnarray}|\{n\leq x:|[n,n+\unicode[STIX]{x1D706}\log n]\cap \mathbb{P}|=m\}|\gg _{m,\unicode[STIX]{x1D706}}x.\end{eqnarray}$$
The value of $\unicode[STIX]{x1D700}(m)$ and the dependence of the implicit constant on $\unicode[STIX]{x1D706}$ and $m$ may be made explicit. This is an improvement of the author’s previous result. Moreover, we will show that a careful investigation of the proof, apart from some slight changes, can lead to analogous estimates when allowing the parameters $m$ and $\unicode[STIX]{x1D706}$ to vary as functions of $x$ or replacing the set $\mathbb{P}$ of all primes by primes belonging to certain specific subsets.

Keywords

primes in short intervalsMaynard’s sieve theory

MSC classification

Primary: 11N05: Distribution of primes
Secondary: 11N36: Applications of sieve methods
Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 100 , Issue 3 , December 2019 , pp. 378 - 387
Copyright
© 2019 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

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Footnotes

The author is funded by a Departmental Award and by an EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership Award.

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