Finding prime pairs with particular gaps

Finding prime pairs with particular gaps (2002)

by Pamela A. Cutter

Venue:	Math. Comp
Citations:	3 - 0 self

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TITLE	Finding prime pairs with particular gaps	INFERENCE
AUTHOR NAME	Pamela A. Cutter	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
ABSTRACT	Abstract. By a prime gap of size g, we mean that there are primes p and p + g such that the g − 1 numbers between p and p + g are all composite. It is widely believed that infinitely many prime gaps of size g exist for all even integers g. However, it had not previously been known whether a prime gap of size 1000 existed. The objective of this article was to be the first to find a prime gap of size 1000, by using a systematic method that would also apply to finding prime gaps of any size. By this method, we find prime gaps for all even integers from 746 to 1000, and some beyond. What we find are not necessarily the first occurrences of these gaps, but, being examples, they give an upper bound on the first such occurrences. The prime gaps of size 1000 listed in this article were first announced on the Number Theory Listing to the World Wide Web on Tuesday, April 8, 1997. Since then, others, including Sol Weintraub and A.O.L. Atkin, have found prime gaps of size 1000 with smaller integers, using more ad hoc methods. At the end of the article, related computations to find prime triples of the form 6m +1, 12m − 1, 12m + 1 and their application	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
YEAR	2002	INFERENCE
VENUE	Math. Comp	INFERENCE
VENUE TYPE	JOURNAL	INFERENCE
PAGES	1737--1744	INFERENCE
VOLUME	70	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	8 found	ParsCit 1.0