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Sifting short intervals II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

John B. Friedlander
Affiliation:
University of Toronto

Extract

Let g(y) denote an arbitrary real-valued function satisfying g(y) → ∞ as y → ∞. One expects, and, subject to certain conjectures, Heath-Brown(3) has proved, that for all y in (1, X], apart from a set of measure o(X), the interval (y, y + g(y) log y] contains primes.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1982

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