Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dragan conjecture

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The result of the debate was delete. - Mailer Diablo 01:14, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Dragan conjecture

Did some research, nothing come up under "Dragon conjecture", taking the quotes off gets a few more, but nothing looking like this. Also adding "prime" doesn't get any further. Probably NN if it exists. I'd say delete unless some good references are given. Fallsend 23:58, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. The conjecture seems interesting, but I can't find any references to Dragan. Arthur Rubin (talk) 01:32, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

  Clarification. Strongly disagree with NN, at least in regard to (a). Arthur Rubin (talk) 01:33, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

  Clarification again. The new conjecture is clearly false, unless $(k\times n!)^{2}+1$ is always prime, for $n\geq 5$. Arthur Rubin (talk) 18:17, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. It does not seem to be much of a conjecture. It says "Given an integer n" and does not hold for 0. If a conjecture by this name really exists, an article that states it properly could be written. --Tabor 05:40, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete for same reason as Tabor. It doesn't hold for 1 either, since 2 is not between 1 and 2. Or for -1. Rule 2 doesn't hold for any negative integers, in fact. Grutness...wha? 06:45, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Related to the Bertrand-Chebychev theorem ("Chebychev said it and I'll say it again, There's always a prime between $n$ and $2n$!"); part A will probably fall over with large $n$. Oh, and no references; the author is from Romania. Might this be original research by the author? --Zetawoof 09:49, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as unverifiable, unless references are given. I can't find a Valeriu Dragan on MathSciNet. Google does not help either. Part (b) is easy to prove (once correctly formulated) since there are n − 1 numbers between n² and n² + n and half of them are even, thus not prime. Part (a) is more interesting. If the Riemann hypothesis is true, then there is a prime between n² and n² + n^1+ε for every ε > 0 for sufficiently large n [1]. Baker, Harman and Pintz proved that there is a prime between n² and n² + n^1.05 for sufficiently large n [2]. Finally, Bertrand's postulate says that an unsolved conjecture states that there is always a prime between n² and (n+1)² = n² + 2n + 1. I find it hard to imagine that a professional mathematician would group two conjectures of such varying difficulty together. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 14:17, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete: not sensible. Charles Matthews 21:57, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Looks like original research. Can't find a trace of Valeriu Dragan, although Vasile Dragan has been very productive :-) --C S 04:56, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: Google immediately turns up a Valeriu Dragan who is an architect and a junior lecturer at "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism. Michael Hardy 22:33, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

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