The Difference Between Consecutive Primes, II

The authors sharpen a result of Baker and Harman (1995), showingthat [x, x + x0.525] contains prime numbers for large x. Animportant step in the proof is the application of a theoremof Watt (1995) on a mean value containing the fourth power ofthe zeta function. 2000 Mathematical Subject Classification:11N05.     

Primes of the form in short intervals

In this note, we prove that for every and , the short interval contains at least one prime number of the form with . This improves a similar result due to Huxley and Iwaniec, which requires .

     

The exceptional set for the distribution of primes between consecutive powers

A well known conjecture about the distribution of primes asserts that between two consecutive squares there is always at least one prime number. The proof of this conjecture is quite out of reach at present, even under the assumption of the Riemann Hypothesis. This paper is concerned with the distribution of prime numbers between two consecutive powers of integers, as a natural generalization of the afore-mentioned conjecture.      

Primes in Special Intervals and Additive Problems with Such Numbers

We study primes in a special set E which is naturally described by the fractional part of p^a, where a<1 is a noninteger. An asymptotic formula with power lowering in the remainder of the trigonometric sum over primes from the set E is obtained. We study several applications of this result to problems of the distribution of primes from E in arithmetic progressions and to additive problems with primes from E.     

On the sum of the first <Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis> primes being a square

Let p _n be the nth prime. In this note, we show that the set of n such that is a square is of asymptotic density zero. Published in Lietuvos Matematikos Rinkinys, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 301–306, July–September, 2007.     

The <Emphasis Type="Italic">G</Emphasis><Subscript>2</Subscript> sphere of a 4-manifold

Let denote the set of even integers . We prove that when H ≥ X ^0.33, almost all integers can be represented as the sum of a prime and the square of a prime. We also prove a similar result for sums of three squares of primes.      

The Life and Work of R.A. Rankin (1915–2001)

Robert Alexander Rankin, an eminent Scottish number theorist and, for several decades, one of the world's foremost experts in modular forms, died on January 27, 2001 in Glasgow at the age of 85. He was one of the founding editors of The Ramanujan Journal. For this and the next two issues of the The Ramanujan Journal, many well-known mathematicians have prepared articles in Rankin's memory. In this opening paper, we provide a short biography of Rankin and discuss some of his major contributions to mathematics. At the conclusion of this article, we provide a complete list of Rankin's doctoral students and a complete bibliography of all of Rankin's writings divided into five categories: (1) Research and Expository Papers; (2) Books; (3) Books Edited; (4) Obituaries; (5) Other Writings.     

A Study in the BV Space of a Denoising—Deblurring Variational Problem

In this paper we study, in the framework of functions of bounded variation, a general variational problem arising in image recovery, introduced in [3]. We prove the existence and the uniqueness of a solution using lower semicontinuity results for convex functionals of measures. We also give a new and fine characterization of the subdifferential of the functional, together with optimality conditions on the solution, using duality techniques of Temam for the theory of time-dependent minimal surfaces. We study the associated evolution equation in the context of nonlinear semigroup theory and we give an approximation result in continuous variables, using Γ -convergence. Finally, we discretize the problems by finite differences schemes and we present several numerical results for signal and image reconstruction. Accepted 5 March 2001. Online publication 20 June 2001.