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

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,,ak2ndtlogk+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=2kq1w(q;a1,a2,,ak)q(11q)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.

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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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