Sophie Germain prime counting heuristic

A Sophie Germain prime is a prime pp for which 2p+12p+1 is also prime, and let C2C_2 be the twin prime constant. Sophie Germain prime conjecture. The number of Sophie Germain primes pNp\leq N is approximately

2C22Ndxlogxlog(2x)2C2N(logN)2.2C_2\int_2^N\frac{dx}{\log x\log(2x)}\sim\frac{2C_2N}{(\log N)^2}.

This is the prime-pair heuristic applied to the polynomials xx and 2x+12x+1; it remains unproved.

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Chris K. Caldwell, “An Amazing Prime Heuristic”, arXiv:2103.04483 (2021).

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