CNRS Poncelet

Conference "Zeta Functions"

June 21 - 25, 2010

Moscow, Russia

RAS Poncelet

Organisers: Michel Balazard (CNRS, Laboratoire Poncelet), Michael Tsfasman (CNRS, Laboratoire Poncelet, Institute for Information Transmission Problems), Alexey Zykin (Laboratoire Poncelet, State University Higher School of Economics)

French Russian

Residue classes containing an unexpected number of primes

Daniel Fiorilli (Montréal)

Thursday 24 June, 11:30 - 12:30

Abstract

We show that when averaging over $q$ in certain ranges, specific values of $a$ give rise to greater or smaller amounts of primes in the progressions $a \bmod q$, depending on the arithmetic properties of $a$.

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