The vanishing ratio conjecture for primes with fixed and diagonal indices

Let pn(k)p^{(k)}_n denote the kk-th prime in the subsequence of primes having prime index, with nn specifying the subsequence, and let pk(k)p^{(k)}_k be the corresponding diagonal term. For every nNn\in\mathbb N, vanishing ratio conjecture.

limk+pn(k)pk(k)=0.\lim_{k\to +\infty}\frac{p^{(k)}_n}{p^{(k)}_k}=0.

This conjecture asserts that, despite the asymptotic equivalence of the associated counting functions, the individual terms with fixed index parameter nn are negligible compared with the diagonal terms as kk tends to infinity. Its resolution is not supplied in the source.

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Piotr Miska, János T. Tóth and Błażej Żmija, “On distribution of subsequences of primes having prime indices with respect to the (R)-denseness and convergence exponent”, arXiv:1908.10421 (2022).

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