The refined distribution conjecture for Pratt-tree height
For a prime , let be the height of its Pratt tree, let and , and write for the number of primes at most . Refined Pratt-tree height conjecture. There is a quantity and fixed constants such that
with, for every , the number of primes satisfying bounded above and below by constant multiples of the indicated exponential tails, and with the lower tail satisfying
More precisely, the upper-tail bounds are and . The conjecture predicts a tight, asymmetric distribution for the centered Pratt-tree height; the paper states that the corresponding features are proved for its probabilistic model, but not for the arithmetic problem.
References
Primary source
Kevin Ford, Sergei V. Konyagin and Florian Luca, “Prime chains and Pratt trees”, arXiv:0904.0473 (2010).
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