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PRIMES IN BEATTY SEQUENCES IN SHORT INTERVALS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2016

Glyn Harman*
Affiliation:
Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, U.K. email [email protected]
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Abstract

In this paper we show that sieve methods used previously to investigate primes in short intervals and corresponding Goldbach-type problems can be modified to obtain results on primes in Beatty sequences in short intervals.

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Research Article
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Copyright © University College London 2016 

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