You need to know: Prime numbers, polynomials, arithmetic progression.
Background: Let denote the set of polynomials in one variable m with integer coefficients.
The Theorem: On 1st October 2006, Terence Tao and Tamar Ziegler submitted to arxiv a paper in which they proved that given any polynomials with
, there are infinitely many pairs of positive integers
and
such that numbers
are simultaneously prime.
Short context: The sequence is called a polynomial progression. In an earlier work, Green and Tao proved that primes contains arbitrary long arithmetic progressions, which corresponds to the case
. The Theorem generalises this result to polynomial progressions. Moreover, the authors proved that for any
, there are infinitely many pairs
as in the Theorem with
. In addition, they proved that even any positive proportion of primes contains infinitely many polynomial progressions.
Links: Free arxiv version of the original paper is here, journal version is here.
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