An Inferior Limit on the Number of Twin Primes up to 6 P
A. Dinculescu *
Formerly with “Esperion” at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 49008, USA.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Because the density of non-ranks in the interval 1...Pj is smaller than the average density of
non-ranks of parent primes in the interval 1...L , where
, there is an
inferior limit on the number of twin ranks up to a prime Pj , and hence on the number of twin
primes up to a number 6 Pj.
Keywords: Twin primes, twin prime conjecture, distribution of primes, sieves.