Bounded gaps between primes

Polymath threads

• I just can’t resist: there are infinitely many pairs of primes at most 59470640 apart, Scott Morrison, 30 May 2013
• The prime tuples conjecture, sieve theory, and the work of Goldston-Pintz-Yildirim, Motohashi-Pintz, and Zhang, Terence Tao, 3 June 2013.
• Polymath proposal: bounded gaps between primes, Terence Tao, 4 June 2013.

Other relevant blog posts

• Bounded gaps between primes!, Emmanuel Kowalski, 21 May 2013.
• Bounded gaps between primes: some grittier details, Emmanuel Kowalski, 4 June 2013.
  • The slides from the talk mentioned in that post

MathOverflow

• Philosophy behind Yitang Zhang’s work on the Twin Primes Conjecture, 20 May 2013.
• A technical question related to Zhang’s result of bounded prime gaps, 25 May 2013.
• How does Yitang Zhang use Cauchy’s inequality and Theorem 2 to obtain the error term coming from the [math]\displaystyle{ S_2 }[/math] sum, 31 May 2013.
• Tightening Zhang’s bound (closed), 3 June 2013.
  • Metathread for this post
• Does Zhang’s theorem generalize to 3 or more primes in an interval of fixed length?, 3 June 2013.

Recent papers and notes

• Bounded gaps between primes, Yitang Zhang, to appear, Annals of Mathematics. Released 21 May, 2013.
• Polignac Numbers, Conjectures of Erdös on Gaps between Primes, Arithmetic Progressions in Primes, and the Bounded Gap Conjecture, Janos Pintz, 27 May 2013.
• A poor man's improvement on Zhang's result: there are infinitely many prime gaps less than 60 million, T. S. Trudgian, 28 May 2013.
• Notes on Zhang's prime gaps paper, Terence Tao, 1 June 2013.
• Bounded prime gaps in short intervals, Johan Andersson, 3 June 2013.

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