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[[Թվերի տեսություն|Թվերի տեսության]] մեջ '''Կրամերի վարկածը''', որն ձևակերպվել է Շվեդ մաթեմատիկոս [[Հարալդ Կրամեր]]ի կողմից [[1936]]թ․–ին,<ref name="Cramér1936">{{Citation |last=Կրամեր |first=Հարալդ |title=On the order of magnitude of the difference between consecutive prime numbers |url=http://matwbn.icm.edu.pl/ksiazki/aa/aa2/aa212.pdf |journal=Acta Arithmetica |volume=2 |year=1936 |pages=23–46 }} {{ref-en}}</ref> [[պարզ թվերի միջև միջակայքեր|հաջորդական պարզ թվերի միջև միջակայքերի]] չափսի գնահատումն է․ հաջորդական պարզ թվերի միջև միջակայքերն միշտ փոքր են, ուստի [[վարկած]]ը քանակապես ցույց է տալիս, թե որքան փոքր կարող են լինել դրանք։ Այն պնդում է, որ
:<math>p_{n+1}-p_n=O((\log p_n)^2),\ </math>
որտեղ ''p''<sub>''n''</sub>–ը ''n''–րդ [[պարզ թիվ]]ն է, ''O''–ն՝ [[մեծ O նշանակում]]ը, "log"–ը՝ [[բնական լոգարիթմ]]ը։ While this is the statement explicitly conjectured by Cramér, his argument actually supports the stronger statement
:<math>\limsup_{n\rightarrow\infty} \frac{p_{n+1}-p_n}{(\log p_n)^2} = 1,</math>
and this formulation is often called Cramér's conjecture in the literature.
Neither form of Cramér's conjecture has yet been proven or disproven.
==Heuristic justification==
Cramér's conjecture is based on a [[Probabilistic number theory|probabilistic]] model (essentially a [[heuristic]]) of the primes, in which one assumes that the probability of a [[natural number]] of size ''x'' being prime is 1/log ''x''. This is known as the '''Cramér model''' of the primes.
Cramér proved that in this model, the above conjecture holds true with [[Almost sure convergence|probability one]].<ref name="Cramér1936" />
==Proven results on prime gaps==
Cramér also gave a [[conditional proof]] of the much [[List of mathematical jargon#weak|weaker]] statement that
:<math>p_{n+1}-p_n = O(\sqrt{p_n}\,\log p_n)</math>
on the assumption of the [[Riemann hypothesis]].<ref name="Cramér1936" />
In the other direction, E. Westzynthius proved in 1931 that prime gaps grow more than logarithmically. That is,<ref>{{Citation |last=Westzynthius |first=E. |title={{lang|de|Über die Verteilung der Zahlen die zu den n ersten Primzahlen teilerfremd sind}} |journal=Commentationes Physico-Mathematicae Helingsfors |volume=5 |issue= |year=1931 |pages=1–37 | zbl=0003.24601 | jfm=57.0186.02 }}.</ref>
:<math>\limsup_{n\to\infty}\frac{p_{n+1}-p_n}{\log p_n}=\infty.</math>
==Heuristics<span id="Cramér–Granville conjecture" />==
[[Daniel Shanks]] conjectured asymptotic equality of record gaps, a somewhat stronger statement than Cramér's conjecture.<ref>{{Citation |first=Daniel |last=Shanks |title=On Maximal Gaps between Successive Primes |journal=Mathematics of Computation |volume=18 |issue=88 |year=1964 |pages=646–651 |doi=10.2307/2002951 |publisher=American Mathematical Society |jstor=2002951 }}.</ref>
In the random model,
:<math>\limsup_{n\rightarrow\infty} \frac{p_{n+1}-p_n}{(\log p_n)^2} = c,</math> with <math>c = 1.</math>
But this constant, <math>c</math>, may not apply to all the primes, by [[Maier's theorem]]. As pointed out by [[Andrew Granville]],<ref>{{Citation |last=Granville |first=A. |title=Harald Cramér and the distribution of prime numbers |journal=Scandinavian Actuarial Journal |volume=1 |issue= |year=1995 |pages=12–28 |url=http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/chance_news/for_chance_news/Riemann/cramer.pdf }}.</ref> a refinement of Cramér's model taking into account divisibility by small primes suggests that <math>c \ge 2e^{-\gamma}\approx1.1229\ldots</math>, where <math>\gamma</math> is the [[Euler–Mascheroni constant]].
[[Thomas Nicely]] has calculated many large prime gaps.<ref>{{Citation |last=Nicely |first=Thomas R. |doi=10.1090/S0025-5718-99-01065-0 |mr=1627813 |issue=227 |journal=Mathematics of Computation |pages=1311–1315 |title=New maximal prime gaps and first occurrences |url=http://www.trnicely.net/gaps/gaps.html |volume=68 |year=1999 }}.</ref> He measures the quality of fit to Cramér's conjecture by measuring the ratio <math>R</math> of the logarithm of a prime to the square root of the gap; he writes, “For the largest known maximal gaps, <math>R</math> has remained near 1.13.” However, <math>1/R^2</math> is still less than 1, and it does not provide support to Granville's refinement that c should be greater than 1.
==See also==
*[[Prime number theorem]]
*[[Legendre's conjecture]] and [[Andrica's conjecture]], much weaker but still unproven upper bounds on prime gaps
* [[Firoozbakht’s conjecture]]
* [[Maier's theorem]] on the numbers of primes in short intervals for which the model predicts an incorrect answer
==References==
{{Reflist}}
* {{cite book |last=Guy | first=Richard K. | authorlink=Richard K. Guy | title=Unsolved problems in number theory | publisher=[[Springer-Verlag]] |edition=3rd | year=2004 | isbn=978-0-387-20860-2 | zbl=1058.11001 | at=A8 }}
* {{cite journal | authorlink=János Pintz | last1=Pintz | first1=János | title=Cramér vs. Cramér. On Cramér's probabilistic model for primes | url=http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.facm/1229619660 | mr=2363833 | year=2007 | journal= Functiones et Approximatio Commentarii Mathematici | volume=37 | pages=361–376 | zbl=1226.11096 | issn=0208-6573 }}
* {{cite book | last=Soundararajan | first=K. | authorlink=Kannan Soundararajan | chapter=The distribution of prime numbers | editor1-last=Granville | editor1-first=Andrew | editor1-link=Andrew Granville | editor2-last=Rudnick | editor2-first=Zeév | title=Equidistribution in number theory, an introduction. Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on equidistribution in number theory, Montréal, Canada, July 11--22, 2005 | location=Dordrecht |publisher=[[Springer-Verlag]] | series=NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry | volume=237 | pages=59-83 | year=2007 | isbn=978-1-4020-5403-7 | zbl=1141.11043 }}
==External links==
*{{mathworld|title=Cramér Conjecture|urlname=CramerConjecture}}
*{{mathworld|title=Cramér-Granville Conjecture|urlname=Cramer-GranvilleConjecture}}
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[[Category:Conjectures about prime numbers]]
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