All the chatter so far has been positive, but the preprint still has yet to be released. If correct this would be the first unconditional proof that such an N exists. Goldston-Pintz-Yildirim showed N <= 16 on Elliott-Halberstam. Charles Greathouse Analyst/Programmer Case Western Reserve University On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
Zhang's recent paper asserts that there is some integer below 70 million such that infinitely many pairs of primes differ by that integer.
Does anyone know if this theorem is generally accepted, (or can we assume that its publication in the Annals is sufficient evidence that it's correct) ?
And, was it previously unknown that there exists any integer N such that infinitely many pairs of primes differ by N ?
Thanks,
Dan
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