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BIG BIASES AMONGST PRODUCTS OF TWO PRIMES

Part of: Multiplicative number theory Exponential sums and character sums

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2016

David Dummit ,
Andrew Granville  and
Hershy Kisilevsky
David Dummit
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05401, U.S.A. email dummit@math.uvm.edu
Andrew Granville
Affiliation:
Département de mathématiques et de statistiques, Université de Montréal, CP 6128 succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC H3C 3J7, Canada Department of Mathematics, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, U.K. andrew@dms.umontreal.ca
Hershy Kisilevsky
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Sir George Williams Campus, Concordia University, Montreal, QC H3G 1M8, Canada email kisilev@mathstat.concordia.ca
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Abstract

We show that substantially more than a quarter of the odd integers of the form $pq$ up to $x$ , with $p,q$ both prime, satisfy $p\equiv q\equiv 3~(\text{mod}\,4)$ .

MSC classification

Primary: 11L20: Sums over primes 11N25: Distribution of integers with specified multiplicative constraints 11N13: Primes in progressions

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Research Article
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Mathematika , Volume 62 , Issue 2 , 2016 , pp. 502 - 507
Copyright
Copyright © University College London 2016 

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