Asymptotic sieve for primes, II

Speaker:

Alisa Sedunova

Affiliation:

MPIM

Date:

Tue, 27/11/2018 - 11:00 - 12:00

Location:

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Parent event:

PLeaSANT (Participative learning seminar analytic number theory) [3]

It is widely believed that sieves can not detect prime numbers. We discuss how to adapt sieve methods in certain cases provided that some additional properties of the sequence considered are known — this particular adaptation is now known as Bombieri asymptotic sieve.