1/ƒ noise in the distribution of prime numbers

Marek Wolf

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1997, vol. 241, issue 3, 493-499

Abstract: The Fourier transform of the “signal” given by the number of primes contained in the successive intervals of equal length l = 216 = 65 536 up to N = 238 ≈ 2.749 × 1011 was performed. It turns out that the power spectrum displays the 1/ƒβ behaviour with the exponent β ≈ 1.64. This slope β does not depend on the length of the sampled intervals, which suggests some kind of self-similarity in the distribution of primes.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(97)00251-3

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