{"title":"Large gaps between primes","authors":"Kevin Ford","doi":"10.1090/gsm/203/30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1090/gsm/203/30","url":null,"abstract":"denote the the maximum gap between consecutive primes less than X . It is clear from the prime number theorem that G(X) > (1 + o(1)) logX, as the average gap between the prime numbers which are 6 X is ∼ logX . Explicit gaps of (at least) this size may be constructed by observing that P (n)+2, P (n)+3, . . . , P (n)+n is a sequence of n−1 composite numbers, where P (n) is the product of the primes 6 n; by the prime number theorem, P (n) = e(1+o(1))n. The decade of the 1930s witnessed a lot of improvements to bounds for G(X). First, Backlund [1] obtained G(X) > (2 + o(1)) logX in 1930, and Brauer-Zeitz [3] got G(X) > (4 + o(1)) logX in 1931. The same year, Westzynthius [25] obtained the first order of magnitude improvement, and consequently proved that infinitely often the gap between consecutive prime numbers can be an arbitrarily large multiple of the average gap. His bound is","PeriodicalId":140374,"journal":{"name":"Graduate Studies in Mathematics","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114408385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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