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Completely new answer, conditional on Schinzel
Bjorn Poonen
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Theorem: Schinzel's hypothesis H implies the conjecture.

Proof: Choose distinct primes $q_S > 100|G|$ indexed by the 2-element subsets $S$ of $G$. For each $i \in G$, let $Q_i$ be the set of $q_S$ for $S$ such that $i \in S$ and the edge $S$ is not part of $G$. Let $P_i$ be the product of the primes in $Q_i$. Let $P = 4 \prod_S q_S^2$.

By the Chinese remainder theorem, for each $i$ we can find a positive integer $a_i$ such that

$a_i \equiv 1 \bmod{\ell^2}$ for each prime $\ell \le 10|G|$,

$a_i \equiv q-1 \bmod{q^2}$ for each $q \in Q_i$, and

$a_i \equiv 1 \bmod{q_S}$ for each $q_S \notin Q_i$.

Moreover, we can choose the $a_i$ to be distinct. Let $J$ be the set of positive integers up to $\operatorname{max} a_i$, but excluding all of the $a$'s themselves (i.e., $J$ consists of the numbers in the gaps). For each $j \in J$ choose a prime $s_j$ much larger than all the $a_i$ and all the $q_S$.

Consider the linear polynomials $P n + a_i$ and $(P n + a_i + 1)/(2P_i)$ In $\mathbf{Z}[n]$. For each prime $\ell \le 10|G|$ and each $\ell$ of the form $q_S$, all these $2|G|$ polynomials are nonzero mod $\ell$ at $n=0$. For each other prime $\ell$, there exists $n$ such that all these polynomials are nonzero mod $\ell$, since $n$ needs to avoid no more than $2|G|$ residue classes mod $\ell$. Furthermore, we can impose the condition that $P n+j$ is divisible by $s_j^2$ for each $j \in J$, and still find $n$ as above. Therefore Schinzel's hypothesis H implies that there exist arbitrarily large positive integers $n$ such that the numbers $P n+a_i$ and $(P n + a_i + 1)/(2P_i)$ are all prime, and such that $P n+j$ is not prime for $j \in J$. This makes the numbers $p_i:=P n + a_i$ consecutive primes such that $(p_i+1)/2 = P_i r_i$ for some prime $r_i$. If $n$ is sufficiently large, then these primes $r_i$ are all distinct and larger than all of the $q_S$. So the greatest common factor of $(p_i+1)/2$ and $(p_j+1)/2$ for $i \ne j$ equals $1$ if there is an edge between $i$ and $j$, and $q_{\{i,j\}}$ otherwise. $\square$


Remark: Given how little is known about consecutive primes, it seems unlikely that the conjecture can be proved unconditionally. But at least now we can be confident that it's true!

Bjorn Poonen
  • 23.8k
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