Importance: High ✭✭✭
Subject: Number Theory
Keywords: prime
prime gap
Recomm. for undergrads: no
Posted by: Hugh Barker
on: January 10th, 2011
Conjecture   Polignac's Conjecture: For any positive even number n, there are infinitely many prime gaps of size n. In other words: There are infinitely many cases of two consecutive prime numbers with difference n.

In particular, this implies:

Conjecture   Twin Prime Conjecture: There are an infinite number of twin primes.

Bibliography

*[P] A. de Polignac, Six propositions arithmologiques déduites de crible d'Ératosthène. Nouv. Ann. Math. 8 (1849), pp. 423--429.


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