{ "id": "1512.08382", "version": "v1", "published": "2015-12-28T12:01:09.000Z", "updated": "2015-12-28T12:01:09.000Z", "title": "The Least Prime Number in a Beatty Sequence", "authors": [ "Jörn Steuding", "Marc Technau" ], "comment": "17 pages", "categories": [ "math.NT" ], "abstract": "We prove an upper bound for the least prime in an irrational Beatty sequence. This result may be compared with Linnik's theorem on the least prime in an arithmetic progression.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2015-12-28T12:01:09.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "prime number", "irrational beatty sequence", "arithmetic progression", "linniks theorem" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 17, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }