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A proof of cases of de Polignac's conjecture

Published 17 Dec 2019 in math.GM | (1912.09290v6)

Abstract: For $n \geq 1$ let $ p_n $ denote the $n{\rm th}$ prime number. Let $$S= {1,7,11,13,17,19,23,29 },$$ the set of positive integers which are both less than and relatively prime to $30.$ For $ x \geq 0,$ let \ $T_x := { 30x+i \; | \; i \in S}.$ For each $ x,$ $T_x$ contains at most seven primes. Let $[ \; ]$ denote the floor or greatest integer function. For each integer $s \geq 30$ let $\pi_7(s)$ denote the number of integers $x, \; 0 \leq x < [\frac {s}{30}]$ for which $T_x$ contains seven primes. Let $m \geq 10{10}$ be an integer and let $P_{K_m}$ denote the largest prime number less than $\sqrt{\prod_{i=1}{m}p_i}.$ In this paper we show that $$\frac{\prod_{i=1}{m}p_i}{8(K_m+1)} < \pi_7\left(\prod_{i=1}{m}p_i\right) $$ and thereby prove that there are infinitely many values of $x$ for which $T_x$ contains seven primes. This, in particular, proves the well known twin prime conjecture as well as several cases of Alphonse de Polignac's conjecture that for every even number $k,$ there are infinitely many pairs of prime numbers $p$ and $p'$ for which $p'-p = k.$

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