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Consecutive primes and Beatty sequences

Published 5 Dec 2016 in math.NT | (1612.01468v1)

Abstract: Fix irrational numbers $\alpha,\hat\alpha>1$ of finite type and real numbers $\beta,\hat\beta\ge 0$, and let $B$ and $\hat B$ be the Beatty sequences $$ B:=(\lfloor\alpha m+\beta\rfloor){m\ge 1}\quad\text{and}\quad\hat B:=(\lfloor\hat\alpha m+\hat\beta\rfloor){m\ge 1}. $$ In this note, we study the distribution of pairs $(p,p\sharp)$ of consecutive primes for which $p\in B$ and $p\sharp\in\hat B$. Under a strong (but widely accepted) form of the Hardy-Littlewood conjectures, we show that $$ \big|{p\le x:p\in B\text{ and }p\sharp\in\hat B}\big|=(\alpha\hat\alpha){-1}\pi(x)+O\big(x(\log x){-3/2+\epsilon}\big), $$ where $\pi(x)$ is the prime counting function.

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