Dave wrote:Remark 1: [tex]p_{k+1 } - p_{k } \ne 2 \lambda[/tex] over E for some [tex]\lambda[/tex] such that [tex]1 \le \lambda < \frac{log^{2}(p_{k+1 }p_{k})}{2}[/tex].
Remark: We must redefine our current exceptional set, E, to comply with remark one.
Remark: This problem is a big headache! Ouch!
Oops! Our current proof of Polignac's conjecture is wrong!! The proof of Polignac's conjecture should be about the spacing between consecutive odd primes.
Example: Suppose we want to exclude [tex]2 \lambda_{0 }[/tex] over E.
We have [tex]p_{2 } - p_{1 } \ne 2 \lambda_{0 }[/tex] such that [tex]1 \le \lambda_{0 } < \frac{log^{2}(p_{1 }p_{2})}{2}[/tex].
The chance that [tex]2 \lambda_{0 }[/tex] is the wrong spacing between consecutive odd primes, [tex]p_{2 } > p_{1 }[/tex], is roughly
[tex]\frac{Floor( \frac{log^{2}(p_{1 }p_{2})}{2} - 1) }{Floor( \frac{log^{2}(p_{1 }p_{2})}{2}) }[/tex].
However, over E, we generate the infinite product of similar values because of independence so that the chance [tex]2 \lambda_{0 }[/tex] is the wrong spacing between consective odd primes over E equates to zero.
In short, Polignac's conjecture is still correct! But our previous reasoning was wrong! We hope we have right this time. We will review it later.
Dave.
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