Thu, September 15, 2016
4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Cockins Hall 240
Title: Unexpected Biases in the distribution of consecutive primes
Speaker: Kannan Soundararajan (Stanford University)
Abstract: In joint work with Robert Lemke Oliver, we discovered a curious phenomenon about consecutive primes: the remainders of consecutive primes modulo q do not like to be the same. I will show striking numerical results exhibiting this phenomenon, and give a conjectural explanation which matches the data very well.
Colloquium URL: https://web.math.osu.edu/colloquium/