The short-partition model conjecture for prime gaps

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Let pnp_n be the nnth prime, let P\mathcal P denote the set of partitions, and let N^\widehat{N} be the supernorm map. A partition has no 11's when none of its parts equals 11, and its length is its number of parts. Short-partition model conjecture for prime gaps. For n≥1n\geq 1, the odd numbers in the interval [pn,pn+1)[p_n,p_{n+1}) can be modeled by the values of N^\widehat{N} on partitions of norm nn having no part equal to 11 and length exactly one or two. This is a provisional heuristic based on simplifying postulates: longer partitions are assumed to contribute negligibly to the prime-gap estimate, and the relevant length-one and length-two partitions are expected to account for most odd values in the gap. It is explicitly a model rather than an established theorem, and no resolution is supplied.

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Madeline Locus Dawsey, Matthew Just and Robert Schneider, “A "supernormal" partition statistic”, arXiv:2107.14284 (2021).

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