Linnik's theorem on Goldbach numbers in short intervals

Goldston, D. A.

Glasgow mathematical journal, Tome 32 (1990) no. 3, pp. 285-297

Résumé

The Goldbach conjecture states that every even number larger than 2 can be written as the sum of two primes. We shall therefore call an even number a Goldbach number if it can be written as the sum of two primes in at least one way. It has been known for a long time that almost all even numbers are Goldbach numbers. In fact, Montgomery and Vaughan [14] have shown that if E(N) denotes the number of even numbers less than or equal to N which are not Goldbach numbers, then there exists an absolute constant δ>0 such that

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DOI : 10.1017/S001708950000937X

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