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The Convex Hull of the Prime Number Graph

Nathan McNew ()
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Nathan McNew: Towson University, Department of Mathematics

A chapter in Irregularities in the Distribution of Prime Numbers, 2018, pp 125-141 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Let p n denote the n-th prime number, and consider the prime number graph, the collection of points (n, p n) in the plane. Pomerance uses the points lying on the boundary of the convex hull of this graph to show that there are infinitely many n such that p 2n

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-92777-0_7

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