A201051 Record (maximal) gaps between prime septuplets (p, p+2, p+6, p+8, p+12, p+18, p+20).
165690, 903000, 10831800, 13773480, 22813770, 31090080, 43751820, 60881310, 86746170, 118516860, 239951250, 281573040, 359932650, 384903750, 518385000, 902801550, 1027007520, 1086331680, 1329198570, 2176467090
Offset: 1
Examples
The gap of 165690 between septuplets starting at p=11 and p=165701 is the very first gap, so a(1)=165690. The gap of 903000 between septuplets starting at p=165701 and p=1068701 is a maximal gap - larger than any preceding gap; therefore a(2)=903000. The next gap of 10831800 is again a maximal gap, so a(3)=10831800. The next gap is smaller, so it does not contribute to the sequence.
Links
- Alexei Kourbatov, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..36
- Tony Forbes and Norman Luhn, Prime k-tuplets
- G. H. Hardy and J. E. Littlewood, Some problems of 'Partitio numerorum'; III: On the expression of a number as a sum of primes, Acta Math., Vol. 44, No. 1 (1923), pp. 1-70.
- Alexei Kourbatov, Maximal gaps between prime k-tuples
- Alexei Kourbatov, Maximal gaps between prime k-tuples: a statistical approach, arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.2242 [math.NT], 2013 and J. Int. Seq. 16 (2013) #13.5.2
- Alexei Kourbatov, Tables of record gaps between prime constellations, arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.4053 [math.NT], 2013.
- Alexei Kourbatov, The distribution of maximal prime gaps in Cramer's probabilistic model of primes, arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.6959 [math.NT], 2014.
- Norman Luhn, Record Gaps Between Prime Septuplets, up to 10^17
- Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, k-Tuple Conjecture
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Formula
Gaps between prime septuplets (p, p+2, p+6, p+8, p+12, p+18, p+20) are smaller than 0.02*(log p)^8, where p is the prime at the end of the gap. There is no rigorous proof of this formula. The O(log^8(p)) growth rate is suggested by numerical data and heuristics based on probability considerations.
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