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Call well-distributed if, for every , if is sufficiently large then, for all and intervals ,
Is it true that, for every , the sequence is not well-distributed, if is the sequence of primes?
Source: erdosproblems.com/997
An accepted solution exists. The statement is true.
PROVED (LEAN): Alexeev, Putterman, Sawhney, Sellke and Valiant
[APSSV26] showed that is not well-distributed for every real
, the accepted claim
Alexeev, Putterman, Sawhney, Sellke and Valiant 2026,
accepted on the site's label and Terence Tao's thread comment; no journal
version of the preprint was found on 2026-10-07. The site's Lean
qualification refers to a formalization that takes the
Banks–Freiberg–Turnage-Butterbaugh theorem [BFT15] as an axiom; a later
public development in Boris Alexeev's repository states an unconditional
proof of the same statement; neither is built or audited here, so the claim
page lists no formalized evidence. Champagne, Lê, Liu and Wooley [CLLW24]
had earlier found one irrational with this property, the partial
claim
Champagne, Lê, Liu and Wooley 2024.