The modal multiplicity conjecture for sieve patterns

Let pnp_n denote the nnth prime, and let Ppn\mathcal{P}_{p_n} denote the corresponding sieve pattern. Modal multiplicity conjecture. The number 66 occurs most frequently among the multiplicities of numbers in any pattern Ppn\mathcal{P}_{p_n} when n11n\geqslant 11. This is an empirical claim about the frequency distribution of values in the sieve patterns; the supplied text gives no proof or resolution.

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Haifeng Xu, Zuyi Zhang and Jiuru Zhou, “Periodicity related to a sieve method of producing primes”, arXiv:1406.0429 (2015).

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