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Primes in short intervals

Hugh L. Montgomery, K. Soundararajan

math.NTarXiv:math/0409258

Abstract

Contrary to what would be predicted on the basis of Cramér's model concerning the distribution of prime numbers, we develop evidence that the distribution of ψ(x+H)- ψ(x), for 0 x N, is approximately normal with mean H and variance H N/H, when Nδ H N1-δ.

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