Relaxed Almost-Prime Production in Sieve Sequences

The square-safe Sieve Sequence certifies that every survivor p in [Q,Q^2) is prime. Requiring p+2 to survive every same filter would ask for a twin-prime pair. This article studies a deliberately weaker target: requiring p+2 to avoid primes below a smaller threshold, which implies that p+2 has at most two prime factors for all sufficiently large Q. The article proves exact algebraic results for the relaxed weight, including its one-divisor local factor and boundary remainder, a shifted-divisor prime-progression discrepancy, and a bilinear character decomposition. These results do not prove positivity; they identify the remaining averaged prime-progression and locally adapted bilinear estimates.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-09-25
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22955791
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Analytic Number Theory Research
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Relaxed Almost-Prime Production in Sieve Sequences

Thiago Henrique Ramos da Mata
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Analytic Number Theory Research
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Relaxed Almost-Prime Production in Sieve Sequences

Thiago Henrique Ramos da Mata
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Abstract

The square-safe Sieve Sequence certifies that every survivor p in [Q,Q^2) is prime. Requiring p+2 to survive every same filter would ask for a twin-prime pair. This article studies a deliberately weaker target: requiring p+2 to avoid primes below a smaller threshold, which implies that p+2 has at most two prime factors for all sufficiently large Q. The article proves exact algebraic results for the relaxed weight, including its one-divisor local factor and boundary remainder, a shifted-divisor prime-progression discrepancy, and a bilinear character decomposition. These results do not prove positivity; they identify the remaining averaged prime-progression and locally adapted bilinear estimates.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Analytic Number Theory Research
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