The universal primorial form of the twin prime conjecture

Let pnp_n be the nn-th prime, let

pn#=i=1npi,p_n\#=\prod_{i=1}^{n}p_i,

and let K{N2:N=1,2,}K\in\left\{\frac{N}{2}:N=1,2,\ldots\right\}. A universal primorial is an odd positive integer of the form Kpn#+gKp_n\#+g, where

g={±1for even N,2 or 4for odd N.g=\begin{cases}\pm1&\text{for even }N,\\2\text{ or }4&\text{for odd }N.\end{cases}

Universal primorial conjecture. There are expected to be infinitely many numbers x=Kpn#+gx=Kp_n\#+g such that both xx and x+2x+2 are prime.

Since every positive integer can be written as a universal primorial, the paper states that this is equivalent to the Twin Prime Conjecture.

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Primary source

George Lillie, “About the Primality of Primorials”, arXiv:2110.04302 (2021).

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