Uniform Hardy–Littlewood conjecture for shifted prime correlations

Let Λ\Lambda be the von Mangoldt function, define the singular series

S=2p>2(11(p1)2),\mathfrak S=2\prod_{p>2}\left(1-\frac1{(p-1)^2}\right),

and for h0h\ne0 let S(h)=0\mathfrak S(h)=0 when hh is odd, while for even hh let

S(h)=Sph\p>2p1p2.\mathfrak S(h)=\mathfrak S\prod_{\substack{p\mid h\p>2}}\frac{p-1}{p-2}.

Set Sn(h)=δ((n,h)=1)S(nh)\mathfrak S_n(h)=\delta((n,h)=1)\mathfrak S(nh). Uniform Hardy–Littlewood conjecture. For every ε>0\varepsilon>0,

mxΛ(mn)Λ(m±h)=Sn(h)nx+Oε(x1/2+ε)\sum_{m\leq x}\Lambda\left(\frac mn\right)\Lambda(m\pm h)=\frac{\mathfrak S_n(h)}n x+O_\varepsilon(x^{1/2+\varepsilon})

uniformly for 1h,nx1ε1\leq h,n\leq x^{1-\varepsilon}.

This is a uniform prime-pair correlation estimate, used in the paper to control the larger-α\alpha range of the twisted pair correlation. The source presents it as a Hardy–Littlewood-type hypothesis rather than a proved result.

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Alessandro Fazzari and Maxim Gerspach, “The third moment of the logarithm of zeta and a twisted pair correlation conjecture”, arXiv:2412.20099 (2024).

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