Averaged Form of the Hardy-Littlewood Conjecture

Abstract

We study the prime pair counting functions ${\pi }_{2k}(x),$ and their averages over $2k.$ We show that good results can be achieved with relatively little effort by considering averages. We prove an asymptotic relation for longer averages of ${\pi }_{2k}(x)$ over $2k\le x^{\theta },$ $\theta >7/12,$ and give an almost sharp lower bound for fairly short averages over $k\le C\log x,$ $C>1/2.$ We generalize the ideas to other related problems.

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• Variants of the Selberg sieve, and bounded intervals containing many primes