{ "id": "1802.02470", "version": "v1", "published": "2018-02-07T15:15:12.000Z", "updated": "2018-02-07T15:15:12.000Z", "title": "On the gaps between consecutive primes", "authors": [ "Yu-Chen Sun", "Hao Pan" ], "comment": "This is a very very preliminary draft, which maybe contains some mistakes", "categories": [ "math.NT", "math.CO" ], "abstract": "Let $p_n$ denote the $n$-th prime. For any $m\\geq 1$, there exist infinitely many $n$ such that $p_{n}-p_{n-m}\\leq C_m$ for some large constant $C_m>0$, and $$p_{n+1}-p_n\\geq \\frac{c_m\\log n\\log\\log n\\log\\log\\log\\log n}{\\log\\log\\log n}, $$ for some small constant $c_m>0$. Furthermore, we also obtain a related result concerning the least primes in arithmetic progressions.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2018-02-07T15:15:12.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "consecutive primes", "arithmetic progressions", "small constant", "th prime" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }