The variance of primes in quadratic progressions: manuscript, code and data

Manuscript (PDF and LaTeX source), code (Python) and data of the project 'The variance of primes in quadratic progressions'. Main results: an unconditional asymptotic formula with a secondary term for the second moment of the pair singular series over the quadratic shifts f_c(k') - f_c(k), an explicit window term for a single window, and, under the Hardy-Littlewood prime pair conjecture with a power saving, a Montgomery-Soundararajan type law of variance for the number of primes among k^2 + bk + c (b in {0,1}) in short windows, averaged over the position of the window; for Y >= x^{2/3+eps} the conjecture is not needed. Numerical experiments (two runs with c up to 2*10^5, with error analysis) are included; all result files carry SHA-256 hashes. The proofs, the computations and the text were prepared with substantial use of an AI assistant (Claude, Anthropic) and checked by independent AI reviews; at the time of this deposit they have not been verified by an independent human expert. The authors take full responsibility for the contents. Archive built by rekopis/zbuduj_pakiet.py; the exact source commit and SHA-256 hashes of every file are listed in MANIFEST.txt inside this archive and are also encoded in the archive's file name.",

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-11-09
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24092616
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Analytic Number Theory Research
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The variance of primes in quadratic progressions: manuscript, code and data

Mateusz Mrugała, Jakub Szczypkowski
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Analytic Number Theory Research
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The variance of primes in quadratic progressions: manuscript, code and data

Mateusz Mrugała, Jakub Szczypkowski
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Abstract

Manuscript (PDF and LaTeX source), code (Python) and data of the project 'The variance of primes in quadratic progressions'. Main results: an unconditional asymptotic formula with a secondary term for the second moment of the pair singular series over the quadratic shifts f_c(k') - f_c(k), an explicit window term for a single window, and, under the Hardy-Littlewood prime pair conjecture with a power saving, a Montgomery-Soundararajan type law of variance for the number of primes among k^2 + bk + c (b in {0,1}) in short windows, averaged over the position of the window; for Y >= x^{2/3+eps} the conjecture is not needed. Numerical experiments (two runs with c up to 2*10^5, with error analysis) are included; all result files carry SHA-256 hashes. The proofs, the computations and the text were prepared with substantial use of an AI assistant (Claude, Anthropic) and checked by independent AI reviews; at the time of this deposit they have not been verified by an independent human expert. The authors take full responsibility for the contents. Archive built by rekopis/zbuduj_pakiet.py; the exact source commit and SHA-256 hashes of every file are listed in MANIFEST.txt inside this archive and are also encoded in the archive's file name.",

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