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While the partial sums of the reciprocals of the primes eventually exceed any integer value, they never equal an integer. One proof [6] is by induction: The first partial sum is 1 / 2 , which has the form odd / even . If the n th partial sum (for n ≥ 1) has the form odd / even , then the (n + 1) st sum is
Because the sum of the reciprocals of the primes diverges, the Green–Tao theorem on arithmetic progressions is a special case of the conjecture. The weaker claim that A must contain infinitely many arithmetic progressions of length 3 is a consequence of an improved bound in Roth's theorem .
The sum of the reciprocals of the primes of the form 4n + 1 is divergent. By Fermat's theorem on sums of two squares, it follows that the sum of reciprocals of numbers of the form + , where a and b are non-negative integers, not both equal to 0, diverges, with or without repetition.
The reciprocals of prime numbers produce a divergent series (so the set of primes is "large"; see divergence of the sum of the reciprocals of the primes): 1 2 + 1 3 + 1 5 + 1 7 + 1 11 + 1 13 + ⋯ → ∞ . {\displaystyle {1 \over 2}+{1 \over 3}+{1 \over 5}+{1 \over 7}+{1 \over 11}+{1 \over 13}+\cdots \rightarrow \infty .}
The convergence of the sum of reciprocals of twin primes follows from bounds on the density of the sequence of twin primes. Let π 2 ( x ) {\displaystyle \pi _{2}(x)} denote the number of primes p ≤ x for which p + 2 is also prime (i.e. π 2 ( x ) {\displaystyle \pi _{2}(x)} is the number of twin primes with the smaller at most x ).
In number theory, Dirichlet's theorem, also called the Dirichlet prime number theorem, states that for any two positive coprime integers a and d, there are infinitely many primes of the form a + nd, where n is also a positive integer. In other words, there are infinitely many primes that are congruent to a modulo d.
Because it is a divergent series, it should be interpreted as a formal sum, an abstract mathematical expression combining the unit fractions, rather than as something that can be evaluated to a numeric value. There are many different proofs of the divergence of the harmonic series, surveyed in a 2006 paper by S. J. Kifowit and T. A. Stamps. [13]
A small set is any subset of the positive integers that is not large; that is, one whose sum of reciprocals converges. Large sets appear in the Müntz–Szász theorem and in the Erdős conjecture on arithmetic progressions .