Conjecture for consecutive Piatetski–Shapiro primes

Fix c1,c2(1,2)c_1,c_2\in(1,2). Let N(c)=(\flnc)n=1{\mathcal{N}}^{(c)}=(\fl{n^c})_{n=1}^{\infty}, let pp^\sharp denote the next larger prime after a prime pp, and define

π(x;N(c1),N(c2))={px:pN(c1) and pN(c2)}.\pi(x;{\mathcal{N}}^{(c_1)},{\mathcal{N}}^{(c_2)})=\left|\left\{p\leq x:p\in{\mathcal{N}}^{(c_1)}\text{ and }p^\sharp\in{\mathcal{N}}^{(c_2)}\right\}\right|.

Consecutive-prime conjecture. For every fixed ε>0\varepsilon>0,

π(x;N(c1),N(c2))=x1/c1+1/c21c1c2logx+O(x1/c1+1/c21(logx)3/2ε),\pi(x;{\mathcal{N}}^{(c_1)},{\mathcal{N}}^{(c_2)})=\frac{x^{1/c_1+1/c_2-1}}{c_1c_2\log x}+O\left(\frac{x^{1/c_1+1/c_2-1}}{(\log x)^{3/2-\varepsilon}}\right),

where the implied constant depends only on c1,c2c_1,c_2 and ε\varepsilon. The paper presents this as a heuristic conjecture based on the Lemke Oliver–Soundararajan model and a strong Hardy–Littlewood hypothesis; no proof or resolution is given.

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Primary source

Victor Z. Guo and Yuan Yi, “Consecutive Piatetski-Shapiro primes based on the Hardy-Littlewood conjecture”, arXiv:2202.06286 (2025).

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