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Longer Than Average Intervals Containing No Primes

Longer Than Average Intervals Containing No Primes

We present two methods for proving that there is a positive proportion of intervals which contain no primes and are longer than the average distance between consecutive primes. The first method is based on an argument of Erdös which uses a sieve upper bound for prime twins to bound the …