The Dickson–Hardy–Littlewood prime-tuples conjecture

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A finite set H⊂NH\subset\mathbb{N} is admissible if, for every prime pp, there is a residue class modulo pp containing no element of HH.

Dickson–Hardy–Littlewood conjecture. If H⊂NH\subset\mathbb{N} is finite and admissible, then there exist infinitely many n∈Nn\in\mathbb{N} such that

n+H⊂P,n+H\subset\mathcal P,

where P\mathcal P is the set of primes. The paper uses this standard prime-tuples conjecture to derive its bounded finite-sums statement in the primes conditionally. It remains unproved in general.

References

Primary source

Bryna Kra, Joel Moreira, Florian K. Richter and Donald Robertson, “Problems on infinite sumset configurations in the integers and beyond”, arXiv:2311.06197 (2025).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2018–2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2301.10303, arXiv:2203.09432, arXiv:1806.09034.

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