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Asymptotic sieve for primes

John Friedlander, Henryk Iwaniec

math.NTarXiv:math/9811186

Abstract

This article develops a new sieve method which by adding an additional axiom to the classical formulation breaks the well-known parity problem and allows one to detect primes in thin, interesting integer sequences. In the accompanying paper [math.NT/9811184] the practicality of the axiom is demonstrated by verifying it (and the other axioms) to produce primes in the sequence a2+b4 with the relevant asymptotics.

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