Gaps between totients

We study the set D of positive integers d for which the equation $ϕ(a)-ϕ(b)=d$ has infinitely many solution pairs (a,b), where $ϕ$ is Euler's totient function. We show that the minumum of D is at most 154, exhibit a specific A so that every multiple of A is in D, and show that any progression a mod d with 4|a and 4|d, contains infinitely many elements of D. We also show that the Generalized Elliott-Halberstam Conjecture, as defined in [6], implies that D equals the set of all positive, even integers.

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