Frantzikinakis's prime progressions with fractional-power differences conjecture

Let kNk\in\mathbb{N} and let cc be a positive real number. Write P\mathbb{P} for the set of primes. Frantzikinakis's conjecture. For infinitely many pairs (p,m)P×N(p,m)\in\mathbb{P}\times\mathbb{N},

{p,p+mc,p+2mc,,p+kmc}P.\{p,p+\lfloor m^c\rfloor,p+2\lfloor m^c\rfloor,\ldots,p+k\lfloor m^c\rfloor\}\subseteq\mathbb{P}.

Moreover, for any positive real numbers c1,,ckc_1,\ldots,c_k, there are infinitely many pairs (p,m)P×N(p,m)\in\mathbb{P}\times\mathbb{N} such that

{p,p+mc1,p+mc2,,p+mck}P.\{p,p+\lfloor m^{c_1}\rfloor,p+\lfloor m^{c_2}\rfloor,\ldots,p+\lfloor m^{c_k}\rfloor\}\subseteq\mathbb{P}.

The source presents this as a problem posed by Frantzikinakis, generalizing an earlier result in two directions: arithmetic progressions whose common difference is a fractional-power value, and configurations involving several fractional powers. It remains open.

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Bora Çalım, Ioannis Iakovakis, Sophie Long, Jack Moffatt and Deborah Wooton, “Popular differences in primes along fractional powers”, arXiv:2411.17599 (2024).

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