Small Gaps Between Primes

Mon, 10/10/2011
16:00
James Maynard (Oxford) Junior Number Theory Seminar Add to calendar SR1

We discuss conjectures and results concerning small gaps between primes. In particular, we consider the work of Goldston, Pintz and Yildrim which shows that infinitely often there are gaps which have size an arbitrarily small proportion of the average gap.