Conjecture for consecutive Piatetski–Shapiro primes

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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 p♯p^\sharp denote the next larger prime after a prime pp, and define

π(x;N(c1),N(c2))=∣{p≤x:p∈N(c1) and p♯∈N(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/c2−1c1c2log⁡x+O(x1/c1+1/c2−1(log⁡x)3/2−ε),\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.

References

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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