Shows the infinitude of twin primes via modular analysis in number theory, implying significant foundational insights.
We prove that the set of twin primes is infinite. The proof is based on the previously established fact that the set K = {k ∈ N | 4k − 1 ∈ P or 4k + 1 ∈ P} is a complete additive basis of order 2. The proof relies on modular analysis and construction of a sequence of numbers that cannot be represented without indices of twin primes. Assuming finiteness of twin primes, we construct a modified set K′ by “removing” all indices that participate in pure twin primes or steptwin primes configurations. Using the Chinese Remainder Theorem, we construct a blocking sequence - an arithmetic progression 𝑁𝑖 = M∙i + A such that for every residue class modulo M, at least one of the associated expressions 4k1 + 1 or 4 k2 − 1 is divisible by a small prime. Consequently, no sufficiently large 𝑁𝑖 can be expressed as a sum of two elements of K′ = K − ”All Twin Primes Indices”. Since K is an additive basis of order 2, the remaining finitely many twin indices cannot cover all 𝑁𝑖 - a contradiction. i.e. this blocking sequence contains numbers that are not representable as sums of two elements from K, leading to a contradiction if twin primes were finite. Hence, there are infinitely many twin primes (p, p + 2). The argument is elementary, using only additive basis property of Generating set K and the Chinese Remainder Theorem, without any unproven conjectures.
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