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On The Infinitude of the Twin Primes

Berndt Gensel
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We present a novel approach to the Twin Prime Conjecture, basing on the $6x \pm 1$ representation of primes. By defining so-called twin prime generators $x \in \N$, for which both $6x - 1$ and $6x + 1$ are prime, we reformulate the conjecture into the existence problem of such $x$. Using admissible residue classes modulo products of small primes and an adapted Selberg sieve, we partition the natural numbers into structured intervals $\mc{A}_n$, where the maximal possible prime divisor of $6x \pm 1$ is fixed. Within each $\mc{A}_n$, we apply the sieve to estimate the number of generator candidates that escape all local obstructions. Due to the \emph{parity problem} we cannot solve the problem with a Selberg sieve. It requires other sieves or methods. The author is searching for them and invites all interested people to help.

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Berndt Gensel. 2019-09-17. On The Infinitude of the Twin Primes. https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.07975

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