Caldwell and Gallot's conjecture on the expected number of primorial primes

Let pnp_n be the nn-th prime and define the primorial by

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

A primorial prime is a prime of the form pn#±1p_n\#\pm1. For a fixed prime bound pNp_N, consider primorial primes with indices pnpNp_n\leq p_N.

Caldwell and Gallot's conjecture. The expected number of primorial primes of each of the forms pn#±1p_n\#\pm1 less than or equal to pN#±1p_N\#\pm1, respectively, are both approximately

eγlogpN.e^{\gamma}\log p_N.

This is motivated by a heuristic using the Mertens product and the ordinary prime probability. It concerns expected counts rather than a proven asymptotic result.

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Primary source

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

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