陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「Polymath8b, III: Numerical optimisation of the variational problem, and a search for new s」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

This is the third thread for the Polymath8b project to obtain new bounds for the quantity

either for small values of (in particular ) or asymptotically as . The previous thread may be found here . The currently best known bounds on are:

已知结果和反例

Much of the current focus of the Polymath8b project is on the quantity

where ranges over square-integrable functions on the simplex

证明或构造的主线

It was shown by Maynard that one has whenever , where is the narrowest diameter of an admissible -tuple. As discussed in the previous post, we have slight improvements to this implication, but they are currently difficult to implement, due to the need to perform high-dimensional integration. The quantity does seem however to be close to the theoretical limit of what the Selberg sieve method can achieve for implications of this type (at the Bombieri-Vinogradov level of distrib

which we prove below the fold. The upper bound holds for all ; the lower bound is only valid for sufficiently large , and gives the upper bound on Elliott-Halberstam.

阅读时建议盯住的点

For small , the upper bound is quite competitive, for instance it provides the upper bound in the best values

we have for and . The situation is a little less clear for medium values of , for instance we have

值得单独记下的条目

• (Maynard) Assuming the Elliott-Halberstam conjecture, .
• (Polymath8b, tentative) . Assuming Elliott-Halberstam, .
• (Polymath8b, tentative) . Assuming Elliott-Halberstam, .
• (Polymath8b) for sufficiently large . Assuming Elliott-Halberstam, for sufficiently large .

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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