On Hölder maps and prime gaps
Abstract
Let pn denote the nth prime, and consider the function 1/n → 1/pn which maps the reciprocals of the positive integers bijectively to the reciprocals of the primes. We show that Hölder continuity of this function is equivalent to a parametrised family of Cramér type estimates on the gaps between successive primes. Here the parametrisation comes from the Hölder exponent. In particular, we show that Cramér’s conjecture is equivalent to the map 1/n → 1/pn being Lipschitz. On the other hand, we show that the inverse map 1/pn → 1/n is Hölder of all orders but not Lipschitz and this is independent of Cramér’s conjecture.
Citation
Chen , H & Fraser , J 2021 , ' On Hölder maps and prime gaps ' , Real Analysis Exchange , vol. 46 , no. 2 , pp. 523-532 . https://doi.org/10.14321/realanalexch.46.2.0523
Publication
Real Analysis Exchange
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0147-1937Type
Journal article
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Funding: The research of H. Chen was funded by China Scholarship Council (File No. 201906150102). J. M.Fraser was financially supported by an EPSRC Standard Grant (EP/R015104/1) and a Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant (RPG-2019-034).Collections
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