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A060199 Number of primes between n^3 and (n+1)^3. +0
8
0, 4, 5, 9, 12, 17, 21, 29, 32, 39, 49, 52, 58, 73, 76, 88, 92, 109, 117, 125, 140, 151, 159, 176, 188, 199, 207, 233, 247, 254, 267, 284, 305, 320, 346, 338, 373, 385, 416, 418, 437, 458, 481, 504, 517, 551, 555, 583, 599, 636, 648, 678, 686, 733, 723, 753, 810 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

0,2

COMMENT

Ingham showed that for n large enough and k=5/8, prime(n+1)-prime(n) < O(prime(n)^k). Ingham's result implies that there is a prime between sufficiently large consecutive cubes. Therefore this sequence is infinite. Using the Riemann Hypothesis, Caldwell and Cheng prove there is a prime between all consecutive cubes. The question is undecided for squares. Many authors have reduced the value of k. The best value of k is 21/40, proved by Baker, Harman and Pintz in 2001.

Conjecture: There are always more than 3 primes between two consecutive non 0 cubes. - Cino Hilliard (hillcino368(AT)gmail.com), Jan 05 2003

REFERENCES

R. C. Baker, G. Harman and J. Pintz, The difference between consecutive primes, II, Proc. London Math. Soc. (3) 83 (2001), no. 3, 532-562. [From T. D. Noe (noe(AT)sspectra.com), Sep 27 2008]

A. E. Ingham, On the difference between two consecutive primes, Quart. J. Math. Oxford 8 (1937), 255-266.

LINKS

Charles Greathouse IV, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..10000

Chris K. Caldwell and Yuanyou Cheng, Determining Mills's Constant and a Note on Honaker's Problem, Journal of Integer Sequences, Vol. 8 (2005), Article 05.4.1 [From T. D. Noe (noe(AT)sspectra.com), Sep 23 2008]

A. E. Ingham Biography

Y.-Y. F.-R. Cheng, Explicit Estimate on Primes between consecutive cubes, arXiv:0810.2113 [math.NT].

FORMULA

Table[PrimePi[(j+1)^3]-PrimePi[j^3], {j, 1, 100}]

EXAMPLE

n = 2: there are 5 primes between 8 and 27, 11,13,17,19,23

n = 9, n+1 = 10: PrimePi(1000)-PrimePi(729) = 168-129 = a(9) = 39

PROGRAM

(PARI) cubespr(n) = { for(x=0, n, ct=0; for(y=x^3, (x+1)^3, if(isprime(y), ct++; ); ); if(ct>=0, print1(ct" "); ) ) } - Cino Hilliard (hillcino368(AT)gmail.com), Jan 05 2003

CROSSREFS

Cf. A000720, A014085.

Sequence in context: A010405 A125603 A078507 this_sequence A034705 A006844 A022425

Adjacent sequences: A060196 A060197 A060198 this_sequence A060200 A060201 A060202

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

Labos E. (labos(AT)ana.sote.hu), Mar 19 2001

EXTENSIONS

Corrected and added more detail to the Ingham references. - T. D. Noe (noe(AT)sspectra.com), Sep 23 2008

Combined two comments, correcting a bad error in the first comment. - T. D. Noe (noe(AT)sspectra.com), Sep 27 2008

Edited by N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Jan 17 2009 at the suggestion of R. J. Mathar

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