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Small differences between consecutive primes II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

M. N. Huxley
M. N. Huxley
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University College, Cardiff
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§1. Let pi denote the i-th prime number, and let

The prime number theorem implies Er ≤ r. Bombieri and Davenport [1] showed that

improving earlier results of Erdős, Rankin and Ricci. Their basic result (corresponding to Lemma 1 below) counts pairs of primes differing by 2n with some weight t(n).

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Mathematika , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , December 1977 , pp. 142 - 152
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Copyright © University College London 1977

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