Bertrand's Postulate for Number Fields
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Consider an algebraic number field, $K$, and its ring of integers, $\mathcal{O}_K$. There exists a smallest $B_K>1$ such that for any $x>1$ we can find a prime ideal, $\mathfrak{p}$, in $\mathcal{O}_K$ with norm $N(\mathfrak{p})$ in the interval $[x,B_Kx]$. This is a generalization of Bertrand's postulate to number fields, and in this paper we produce bounds on $B_K$ in terms of the invariants of $K$ from an effective prime ideal theorem due to Lagarias and Odlyzko. We also show that a bound on $B_K$ can be obtained from an asymptotic estimate for the number of ideals in $\mathcal{O}_K$ less than $x$.
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