Congruences characterizing twin primes

Jan Górowski, Adam Łomnicki

Abstract


Inspired by P.A. Clement’s results in [2], we give new necessary and sufficient conditions for two prime numbers to be twin primes.

Keywords


prime number, twin prime pair

Mathematics Subject Classification


11A41, 11A07

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