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A consequence of Firoozbakht's conjecture?

This is a question out of curiosity, while looking at the Firoozbakht's conjecture. It might not be research related, but as usual, I am not really sure if a question ever is research related or not, ...
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On a subset of the $abc$ triples

The $abc$ conjecture states that, for every positive real $\varepsilon$, there exist only finitely many triples $(a, b, c)$ of coprime positive integers such that $a + b = c$ and $$c > \...
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Do primes of the form $4k+1$ ever lead the greatest prime factor race?

Analogous to Chebyshev's race between primes, I examined the race between primes in the greatest prime factors, GPF, of natural numbers. Similar to the regular prime race, in the GPF race, the ...
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Counting primes, twin primes, cousin primes: unusual approach, connection to some conjectures

I am investigating the following sieve-like algorithm. Let $S_N=\{1,\dots,N\}$. For all primes $p$ with $p_0\leq p \leq M$, we remove from $S_N$ the following elements: all numbers $n\in S_N$ such ...
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Counting twin primes with a sieve-like algorithm

The sequence A002822, denoted as $S$, represents all the twin primes except $\{3, 5\}$. Other than that exception, $k$ and $k+2$ are twin primes iff $(k+1)/6\in S$. Let $S(N)$ be the subset of $S$ ...
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Why is the Simple Zeros Conjecture said to be stronger than the Riemann Hypothesis?

Let the "Simple Zeros Conjecture (SZC)" be the statement that all zeros of the Riemann zeta function are simple. I have often heard of the statement that the SZC is stronger than the Riemann ...
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More mysteries about the zeros of the Riemann zeta function

Update on 12/26/2020: I added the Appendix at the bottom: simplified formula for $|\zeta(s)|^2$, when $\frac{1}{2}<\Re(s)<1$. Update on 1/5/2020: I added the section "more interesting ...
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A conjectured upper bound for the mean value of prime divisors inside prime gaps

In 1969 C.A. Grimm stated this interesting conjecture: the prime gap $\,G_n=\{x\in N:p_n\lt x\lt p_{n+1}\}\,$ contains at least $\,\#G_n=(p_{n+1}-p_n)-1=g_n-1\,$ distinct prime divisors, that is if $\,...
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$π(x+y) - π(x) ≤ c·y/\ln(y)$ for some constant $c$?

(I posted this question on Math SE but it has had no answer for a year now so I would like to ask if anyone here can provide one.) Thinking about the prime number theorem, I wondered whether it is ...
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"Halfway" approach to Landau's 4th problem (special case of Bateman-Horn)

Landau's 4th problem asks if $n^2 + 1$ is prime for infinitely many $n \in \Bbb{Z}$. It is known that $n^2 + 1$ can only be divisible by Pythagorean primes, and that for any $p$ congruent to $1 \pmod ...
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Is new $n$-conjecture as follows correct?

Given a positive integer $P>1$, let its prime factorization be written as$$P=p_1^{a_1}p_2^{a_2}p_3^{a_3}\cdots p_k^{a_k}.$$ Define the functions $h(P)$ by $h(1)=1$ and $h(P)=\min(a_1, a_2,\ldots,...
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Variants of Nicholson's inequalities for prime numbers, involving the Lambert $W$ function

The purpose of this post is ask about two closely related/inspired conjectures from inequalities due to Nicholson (see [1]) and Visser [2]. If my reasonings are right should be stronger versions of ...
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is there a link with the probabilistic model for prime numbers?

Let $x \in \mathbb{R}_+$ and $k \in \mathbb{N}^{*}$. Let : $$\mathcal{A}(x)=\#\{(a_1, a_2, \ldots, a_k) \in \mathbb{P}^k \mid (a_1, a_2, \ldots, a_k \text{ verifying some properties}) \, , a_k \...
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Inequalities $\pi(x^a+y^b)^\alpha\leq \pi(x^c)^\beta+\pi(y^d)^\gamma$ involving the prime-counting function, where the constants are very close to $1$

Let $\pi(x)$ be the prime-counting function, I'm curious about if a suitable variant of the second Hardy–Littlewood conjecture (this corresponding Wikipedia) $$\pi(x^a+y^b)^\alpha\leq \pi(x^c)^\beta+\...
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On $\sum_{\substack{p\leq x\\p,p+2\text{ twin primes}}}\frac{(\log p)^m}{p}$, on assumption of the first Hardy–Littlewood conjecture

I wondered, inspired in a result from [1] (Proposition 17) what should be the asymptotic behaviour of the sequence, on assumption of the First Hardy–Littlewood conjecture, $$\sum_{\substack{\text{...
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Attempt of exploit the equation $1/\operatorname{rad}(n)=1/2-2\varphi(n)/\sigma(n)$ in the context of even perfect numbers, and a related conjecture

It is well known that the problem concerning even perfect numbers is to prove or refute if there are infinitely many of them. Few weeks ago I wrote the following conjecture, where $\varphi(n)$ denotes ...
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Is the following weak version of second Hardy-Littlewood conjecture already known?

Very recently I was going through my previous MSE posts and I stumbled upon some of them regarding the Second Hardy-Littlewood Conjecture which states that, For all $x,y\ge 2$ we have, $$\pi(x)+\...
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Generalization of Legendre`s conjecture

Legendre`s conjecture states that there is always a prime between $n^2$ and $(n+1)^2$ for every natural $n$. It is natural to create following generalization: Is it true that for every $\...
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What explains the asymptotic and the pattern in this sequence related to Riemann zeta zeros?

As the starting point for my experiment I assumed that the imaginary parts of the Riemann zeta zeros are of the form: $$\Im \{ \rho_n \} = \frac{2\pi}{\log x_n}$$ where $x_n$ is unknown. Therefore I ...
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Is this a proof of the Hardy-Littlewood inequality? [closed]

V.V. Miasoyedov posted a paper to the arXiv claiming a proof of the Hardy-Littlewood conjecture $\pi(x+y) \le \pi(x)+\pi(y)$. It seems a bit off, and not only because the conjecture is widely believed ...
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A conjecture based on Wilson's theorem

Definitions: Lagrange's theorem implies that for each prime $p$, the factors of $(p − 1)!$ can be arranged in unequal pairs, with the exception of $±1$, where the product of each pair $≡ 1 \pmod p$. ...
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What will be the consequences if second Hardy-Littlewood conjecture turns out to be true?

It is generally believed that the Second Hardy-Littlewood Conjecture is false. But it has not been proved (or disproved) yet. My question is, What would be the consequences if Second Hardy-Littlewood ...
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Arithmetic progression and average of two prime numbers

Let $A=(a_n : n \in \mathbb{N})$ be the sequence given by: $$ \ a_n = a_1 + (n - 1)d,\quad a_1,\ d,\ n \in \mathbb N,\quad d\gt a_1,\quad \gcd(a_1,\ d)=1. $$ For all terms of $A$ greater than $\ \...
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