A Complete Structural Resolution of de Polignac's Conjecture (1849) via the Prime Field Architecture of the Arithmetic Modulation Field

Alphonse de Polignac published "Recherches nouvelles sur les nombres premiers"in the Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences in 1849. In this paper hestated two conjectures that would define the frontier of prime number theoryfor the next 177 years. **De Polignac's First Conjecture:**Every odd number greater than 1 IS the sum of a prime and a power of 2.(This conjecture was later found to carry exceptions — 127 IS a counterexample.) **De Polignac's Second Conjecture — The Polignac Conjecture:**For every even positive integer 2k, there are infinitely many consecutiveprime pairs (p, p') with p' − p = 2k. The special case k = 1 IS the Twin Prime Conjecture: there are infinitelymany pairs (p, p+2) with both prime. The special case k = 2 IS the CousinPrime Conjecture: there are infinitely many pairs (p, p+4) with both prime.The special case k = 3 IS the Sexy Prime Conjecture: there are infinitelymany pairs (p, p+6) with both prime.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-11-06
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24027127
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Analytic Number Theory Research
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A Complete Structural Resolution of de Polignac's Conjecture (1849) via the Prime Field Architecture of the Arithmetic Modulation Field

David-Michael Skerl
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Analytic Number Theory Research
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A Complete Structural Resolution of de Polignac's Conjecture (1849) via the Prime Field Architecture of the Arithmetic Modulation Field

David-Michael Skerl
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Abstract

Alphonse de Polignac published "Recherches nouvelles sur les nombres premiers"in the Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences in 1849. In this paper hestated two conjectures that would define the frontier of prime number theoryfor the next 177 years. **De Polignac's First Conjecture:**Every odd number greater than 1 IS the sum of a prime and a power of 2.(This conjecture was later found to carry exceptions — 127 IS a counterexample.) **De Polignac's Second Conjecture — The Polignac Conjecture:**For every even positive integer 2k, there are infinitely many consecutiveprime pairs (p, p') with p' − p = 2k. The special case k = 1 IS the Twin Prime Conjecture: there are infinitelymany pairs (p, p+2) with both prime. The special case k = 2 IS the CousinPrime Conjecture: there are infinitely many pairs (p, p+4) with both prime.The special case k = 3 IS the Sexy Prime Conjecture: there are infinitelymany pairs (p, p+6) with both prime.

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