The Primes Matrix, The Prime Pair Sets and The Curious Behavior of Prime Numbers
The Primes Matrix, The Prime Pair Sets and The Curious Behavior of Prime Numbers
Michael McKee
Background of the Analysis
In the Spring of 2008, having nothing better to do, I began the analysis of
Prime Numbers in order to determine some kind of pattern lying therein.
My initial attempt to find a pattern utilized Linear Algebra and the
representation of Prime Numbers as matrices consisting of their sums and
products. While this proved interesting, it did not lead to the results I had
envisioned and so I began a new approach.
I knew that every Prime Number other than 2 and 3 could be represented
as one of the forms (6a +1) or (6a – 1), for some integer ‘a’. I decided to
see what would happen if I added multiples of 6 to each of the Prime
Numbers in a simple matrix (see Figure 1 in Appendix A).
Multiplication
Addition
The Prime Numbers (including the number 1)
The Integers (0, 1, 2, 3, …)
eiπ = - 1
The values which make-up the y-axis of the Primes Matrix are defined as
follows:
The values which make-up the x-axis of the Primes Matrix are defined as
follows:
During the summer of 2008 I had worked on the Primes Matrix to see
what I could learn from my previous efforts. It didn’t take too long to
find something interesting.
We can then take the next largest prime and the next smallest prime and
perform the same function yielding the same results. And the next and
the next and so on until all of the prime numbers on that column have
been exhausted.
In other words, the Prime Pair sets may be read directly from the Primes
Matrix. These pairs in each column form the sets of Prime Pair values for
that column. The first 80 Prime Pair sets are shown in Appendix B.
Note: Although the Prime Pair Sets are read directly from the Primes
Matrix as negative values, we can multiply through by -1 to show the
members of each set as positive values.
We may now discuss the premises by which the Prime Pair Sets may be
defined:
Examples
The first Prime Pair Set S1 has a single member consisting of the
Prime Numbers 1 and 5:
Set 1 Value = 6
S1 = {(1, 5)}
The second Prime Pair Set S2 has two members consisting of the
Prime Numbers 1, 5, 7 and 11:
Set 2 Value = 12
S2 = {(1, 11), (5, 7)}
Note
The set (Pa, Pb) will be indistinct from the set (Pb, Pa) – for our
purposes these sets will map to the same member.
Observations
A Prime Number has a Prime Pair relationship to another
Prime Number only [at most] once as defined within one of the
columns of the Primes Matrix.
Questions
Figure 1
Figure 2
Figure 3
Figure 4
Appendix B: The First 80 Groups of Prime Pair Sets