Two statements that are equivalent to a conjecture related to the distribution of prime numbers

Abstract

Let n∈Z+. In [8] we ask the question whether any sequence of n consecutive integers greater than n2 and smaller than (n+1)2 contains at least one prime number, and we show that this is actually the case for every n≤ 1,193,806,023. In addition, we prove that a positive answer to the previous question for all n would imply Legendre's, Brocard's, Andrica's, and Oppermann's conjectures, as well as the assumption that for every n there is always a prime number in the interval [n,n+2n-1]. Let π[n+g(n),n+f(n)+g(n)] denote the amount of prime numbers in the interval [n+g(n),n+f(n)+g(n)]. Here we show that the conjecture described in [8] is equivalent to the statement that π[n+g(n),n+f(n)+g(n)] 1, ∀ n∈Z+, where f(n)=(n-n2-n-β|n-n2-n-β|)(1-n), g(n)=1-n+n, and β is any real number such that 1<β<2. We also prove that the conjecture in question is equivalent to the statement that π[Sn,Sn+Sn-1] 1, ∀ n∈Z+, where Sn=n+128n+1-122-128n+1-12+1. We use this last result in order to create plots of h(n)=π[Sn,Sn+Sn-1] for many values of n.

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