Asymptotic sieve for primes

Speaker:

Alisa Sedunova

Affiliation:

MPIM

Date:

Wed, 14/11/2018 - 16:30 - 17:30

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.