[FOM] 438: Twin Prime Polynomial/errors

[Harvey Friedman]

THIS RESEARCH WAS PARTIALLY SUPPORTED BY THE JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION.

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INTEGER POLYNOMIAL DECISION PROBLEMS
September 17, 2010

There are a number of bugs in posting http://www.cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/2010-September/015049.html 
  E.g., universal quantifiers should be existential, +2 should be -2,  
and other problems.

I still believe that the Twin Prime Conjecture can be put in a form  
which illustrates the difficulties inherent in understanding ranges of  
reasonably small polynomials (with nonnegative coefficients) on the  
(nonnegative) integers.

The interest in this depends on keeping the polynomial small. I found  
it easy to underestimate the opportunities for bugs.

I would be very interested to see what the FOM readership comes up  
with along these lines.

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350: one dimensional set series  7/23/09  12:11AM
351: Mapping Theorems/Mahlo/Subtle  8/6/09  10:59PM
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353: Function Generation 1  8/9/09  12:09PM
354: Mahlo Cardinals in HIGH SCHOOL 1  8/9/09  6:37PM
355: Mahlo Cardinals in HIGH SCHOOL 2  8/10/09  6:18PM
356: Simplified HIGH SCHOOL and Mapping Theorem  8/14/09  9:31AM
357: HIGH SCHOOL Games/Update  8/20/09  10:42AM
358: clearer statements of HIGH SCHOOL Games  8/23/09  2:42AM
359: finite two person HIGH SCHOOL games  8/24/09  1:28PM
360: Finite Linear/Limited Memory Games  8/31/09  5:43PM
361: Finite Promise Games  9/2/09  7:04AM
362: Simplest Order Invariant Game  9/7/09  11:08AM
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365: Free Reductions and Large Cardinals 1  9/24/09  1:06PM
366: Free Reductions and Large Cardinals/polished  9/28/09 2:19PM
367: Upper Shift Fixed Points and Large Cardinals  10/4/09 2:44PM
368: Upper Shift Fixed Point and Large Cardinals/correction 10/6/09
8:15PM
369. Fixed Points and Large Cardinals/restatement  10/29/09 2:23PM
370: Upper Shift Fixed Points, Sequences, Games, and Large Cardinals
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371: Vector Reduction and Large Cardinals  11/21/09  1:34AM
372: Maximal Lower Chains, Vector Reduction, and Large Cardinals
11/26/09  5:05AM
373: Upper Shifts, Greedy Chains, Vector Reduction, and Large
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374: Upper Shift Greedy Chain Games  12/12/09  5:56AM
375: Upper Shift Clique Games and Large Cardinals 1graham
376: The Upper Shift Greedy Clique Theorem, and Large Cardinals
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377: The Polynomial Shift Theorem  12/25/09  2:39PM
378: Upper Shift Clique Sequences and Large Cardinals  12/25/09 2:41PM
379: Greedy Sets and Huge Cardinals 1
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381: Trigonometric Shift Theorem  12/29/09  11:25AM
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12/30/09  3:25PM
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7:51PM
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387: Better Polynomial Shift Translation/typos  1/6/10  10:41PM
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389: Finite Games, Vector Reduction, and Large Cardinals 1 2/9/10
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390: Finite Games, Vector Reduction, and Large Cardinals 2 2/14/09
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394: Free Reduction Theory 1  3/2/10  7:30PM
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420: Reduction Function Theory 1  5/17/10   2:53AM
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434: Digraph Kernel Structure Theory 1  7/4/10  3:17PM
435: Kernel Structure Theory 1  7/5/10  5:55PM
436: Kernel Structure Theory 2  7/9/10  5:21PM
437: Twin Prime Polynomial  7/15/10  2:01PM

Harvey Friedman