Modified Polignac's conjecture for number-trail prime gaps

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Let Dk1=L∞(pk+1)−L∞(pk)\mathcal{D}_k^1=L_{\infty}(p_{k+1})-L_{\infty}(p_k) be the prime gaps along the number trail, and let N\mathbb{N} denote the natural numbers. Modified Polignac's conjecture. For every N∈N∖{1,3,5}N\in\mathbb{N}\setminus\{1,3,5\}, there are infinitely many kk such that Dk1=N\mathcal{D}_k^1=N. The preceding result shows that D1\mathcal{D}^1 takes arbitrarily large values but never takes 33 or 55; the conjecture proposes infinitude for every remaining natural value except 11, whose treatment is also excluded by the stated formulation. Its resolution is not given in the source.

References

Primary source

István B. Kolossváry and István T. Kolossváry, “Distance between natural numbers based on their prime signature”, arXiv:2005.02027 (2021).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2020). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1711.02903.

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