The Selberg sieve provides majorants for certain arithmetic sequences, such as the primes and the twin primes. We prove an – restriction theorem for majorants of this type. An immediate application is to the estimation of exponential sums over prime -tuples. Let and be positive integers. Write , where is the set of all such that the numbers are all prime. We obtain upper bounds for , , which are (conditionally on the Hardy-Littlewood prime tuple conjecture) of the correct order of magnitude. As a second application we deduce from Chen’s theorem, Roth’s theorem, and a transference principle that there are infinitely many arithmetic progressions of primes, such that is either a prime or a product of two primes for each .
Le crible de Selberg fournit des majorants pour certaines suites arithmétiques, comme les nombres premiers et les nombres premiers jumeaux. Nous démontrons un théorème de restriction - pour les majorants de ce type. Comme application immédiate, nous considérons l’estimation des sommes d’exponentielles sur les -uplets premiers. Soient et les entiers positifs. On pose , où est l’ensemble des tels que tous les nombres sont premiers. Nous obtenons des bornes supérieures pour , , qui sont (en supposant la vérité de la conjecture de Hardy et Littlewood sur les -uplets premiers) d’ordre de magnitude correct. Une autre application est la suivante. En utilisant les théorèmes de Chen et de Roth et un « principe de transférence », nous démontrons qu’il existe une infinité de suites arithmétiques de nombres premiers, telles que chacun est premier ou un produit de deux nombres premier.
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Ben Green; Terence Tao. Restriction theory of the Selberg sieve, with applications. Journal de théorie des nombres de Bordeaux, Volume 18 (2006) no. 1, pp. 147-182. doi : 10.5802/jtnb.538. https://jtnb.centre-mersenne.org/articles/10.5802/jtnb.538/
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