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The average size of gaps between primes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Carlos Julio Moreno
Carlos Julio Moreno
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of IllinoisUrbana, Illinois, U.S.A.
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Erdoső has asked whether there exists a positive constant c < 1 such that

where pn is the n-th prime. In 1943 Selberg «3» proved, on the assumption of the Riemann Hypothesis, that

uniformly for H > 0. By an elementary extension of Selberg's method we prove the following two results free of any unproved assumptions.

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Research Article
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Mathematika , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , June 1974 , pp. 96 - 100
Copyright
Copyright © University College London 1974

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