Hardy–Littlewood's asymptotic density conjecture for admissible prime tuples

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Let (a1,a2,…,ak)(a_1,a_2,\ldots,a_k) be a monotonically increasing sequence of positive even integers. Let pp be prime, and let P=(p,p+a1,p+a2,…,p+ak)P=(p,p+a_1,p+a_2,\ldots,p+a_k) be an admissible prime kk-tuple, meaning that the entries are prime and do not form a complete residue class modulo any prime. Let πP(n)\pi_P(n) count primes p<np<n for which every p+aip+a_i is prime. Let w(q;a1,a2,…,ak)w(q;a_1,a_2,\ldots,a_k) be the number of distinct residues of a1,a2,…,aka_1,a_2,\ldots,a_k modulo the prime qq. Hardy–Littlewood's asymptotic density conjecture. The counting function satisfies

πP(n)∼Ca1,a2,…,ak∫2ndtlog⁡k+1t,\pi_P(n) \sim C_{a_1,a_2,\ldots,a_k}\int_2^n \frac{dt}{\log^{k+1}t},

where

Ca1,a2,…,ak=2k∏q1−w(q;a1,a2,…,ak)q(1−1q)k+1.C_{a_1,a_2,\ldots,a_k}=2^k\prod_q \frac{1- \frac{w(q;a_1,a_2,\ldots,a_k)}{q}}{(1-\frac 1 q)^{k+1}}.

This is the Hardy–Littlewood prediction for the asymptotic density of admissible prime kk-tuples; if true, it implies the infinitude of every admissible prime tuple. The paper provides numerical data supporting the conjecture, but it remains unproved in general.

References

Primary source

László Tóth, “On The Asymptotic Density Of Prime k-tuples and a Conjecture of Hardy and Littlewood”, arXiv:1910.02636 (2019).

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