Talk:Elliott–Halberstam conjecture
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Question[edit]
on Dan Goldston, it says "they can also show that primes within 16 of each other occur infinitely often"
this article says "shows (assuming this conjecture) that there are infinitely many pairs of primes which differ by at most 20. '20' instead of '16'.
What gives? GangofOne 04:09, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
- I checked the source material. Looks like there was an earlier result of 20 and a few months later it was improved to 16. I've updated the page accordingly. Terry 04:22, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
According to http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.4600 it appears this number should be revised to 12. However I'm not sure if that paper has been peer reviewed yet. Can someone with more knowledge on the subject check whether this edit should be made? Alsee (talk) 14:25, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
The Goldston, Pintz, Yildirim reference is pretty sketchy[edit]
Just a untitled mystery pointer into the arxiv. I believe there are better surveys on the web; perhaps a real mathematician could choose one. Weren't there (subsequently fixed) problems with the early G-P-Y papers? Hopefully not the referenced one! Also, "recent result" has a way of dating. Thanks to whoever eventually makes the effort to fix this. Maybe it will even be me.