{ "id": "1907.11994", "version": "v1", "published": "2019-07-28T00:26:37.000Z", "updated": "2019-07-28T00:26:37.000Z", "title": "Large prime gaps and progressions with few primes", "authors": [ "Kevin Ford" ], "comment": "5 pages", "categories": [ "math.NT" ], "abstract": "We show that the existence of arithmetic progressions with few primes, with a quantitative bound on ``few'', implies the existence of larger gaps between primes less than x than is currently known unconditionally. In particular, we derive this conclusion if there are certain types of exceptional zeros of Dirichlet L-functions.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2019-07-28T00:26:37.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "11N05", "11N13", "11M20" ], "keywords": [ "large prime gaps", "arithmetic progressions", "dirichlet l-functions", "larger gaps", "exceptional zeros" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 5, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }