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The convergence of an alternating series of Erd\H{o}s, assuming the Hardy--Littlewood prime tuples conjecture

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arxiv 2308.07205 v3 pith:DIV3FUXY submitted 2023-08-14 math.NT

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keywords primealternatingassumingconjecturehardy--littlewoodquestionseriestuples
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It is an open question of Erd\H{o}s as to whether the alternating series $\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{(-1)^n n}{p_n}$ is (conditionally) convergent, where $p_n$ denotes the $n^{\mathrm{th}}$ prime. By using a random sifted model of the primes recently introduced by Banks, Ford, and the author, as well as variants of a well known calculation of Gallagher, we show that the answer to this question is affirmative assuming a suitably strong version of the Hardy--Littlewood prime tuples conjecture.

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  1. Holder continuity of an alternating Erdos series on prime K-tuples

    math.GM 2025-04 reject novelty 3.0 of 10

    The paper claims a conditional proof of convergence for the alternating Erdős series, but the proof relies on an invalid integral representation and a false Hölder continuity assertion.

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