The short-interval prime number conjecture

Let <ε<1<\varepsilon<1 and let Φ(x)=xε\Phi(x)=x^{\varepsilon}, where Φ(x)\Phi(x) determines the intervals I(x,Φ)=[xΦ(x),x+Φ(x)]I(x,\Phi)=[x-\Phi(x),x+\Phi(x)]. Write π(I(x,Φ))\pi(I(x,\Phi)) for the number of prime integers in this interval. Short-interval prime number conjecture. The asymptotic formula

π(I(x,Φ))#(I(x,Φ))logx\pi\big(I(x,\Phi)\big)\sim \frac{\#\big(I(x,\Phi)\big)}{\log x}

holds as xx\to\infty. This is a classical conjecture about the density of primes in intervals of length xεx^{\varepsilon}; the source states that it remains open in full generality.

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Efrat Bank and Tyler Foster, “Primes in short intervals on curves over finite fields”, arXiv:1701.06822 (2018).

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