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Is it true that
converges, where is the sequence of primes?
Source: erdosproblems.com/15
No claim settles this problem.
Open; the site's label is OPEN. The best result is conditional:
Tao proves that the series converges assuming a quantitative Hardy-Littlewood
prime tuples conjecture (Theorem 1.4 of arXiv:2308.07205, published as Comm.
Amer. Math. Soc. 4 (2024), 80-96); the result is recorded as the accepted
conditional claim page
Tao 2023, which derives no
standing. A Lean file accepted by the bounty site Conjectures.io (record
f8fbf2ed-4ae2-49ab-b0b0-f2f7924af6b4,
solution,
accessed 2026-09-28; kernel verified; review outcome a
formalization-defect award under its policy v1, whose decision file is dated
2026-08-05 and which Conjectures.io displays as decided 25 August 2026;
certified 6 August 2026) proves the negation of the formal-conjectures statement
as it stood from 2026-04-17 to 2026-09-09,
True ↔ Summable (fun k : ℕ => (-1 : ℚ) ^ (k + 1) * (k + 1) / (k.nth Nat.Prime)).
That statement is not the site's question: Mathlib's Summable is
unconditional summability, over the reals equivalent to absolute convergence,
and its rational coefficients demand a rational limit, so the file refutes the
absolute-convergence variant ( diverges since )
and says nothing about the partial sums. Conjectures.io's review records that
the result does not settle the informal Erdős problem, and Conjectures.io
withdrew the problem from its pool on 5 August 2026 pending a corrected
statement; formal-conjectures restated the theorem as convergence of the real
partial sums on 9 September 2026 (PR #4990) and keeps it open. No proof claim on
erdosproblems.com, no refereed resolution and no other candidate was found. The Conjectures.io submission has no claim page of its own: its
submitter is pseudonymous on Conjectures.io, and its own decision classes it as
the refutation of a defective formal task that settles nothing about the
problem.