A variant of the prime number theorem

DOI10.1016/J.INDAG.2021.09.005MaRDI QIDQ2076515zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Kui Liu, Jie Wu, Zhishan Yang

Publication date 22 February 2022

Published in Indagationes Mathematicae. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.10844

zbMATH Keywords

exponential sumsprime number theoremVaughan's identity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Estimates on exponential sums (11L07) Primes in congruence classes (11N13) Asymptotic results on arithmetic functions (11N37)

Abstract: Let $Lambda(n)$ be the von Mangoldt function, and let $[t]$ be the integral part of real number $t$. In this note, we prove that for any $varepsilon>0$ the asymptotic formula ${\displaystyle }$ sum_{nle x} LambdaBig(Big[frac{x}{n}Big]Big) = xsum_{dge 1} frac{Lambda(d)}{d(d+1)} + O_{varepsilon}�ig(x^{9/19+varepsilon}�ig) qquad (x oinfty)${\displaystyle }$ holds. This improves a recent result of Bordell`es, which requires $frac97203$ in place of $frac919$.

Review text

The paper under review deals about sums of the shape \[\sum_{n \leqslant x} f \left( \lfloor x/n \rfloor \right)\] which were first investigated in [the reviewer et al., J. Number Theory 202, 278--297 (2019; Zbl 1454.11009)]. Since this paper was published, a large number of researchers have improved the results in various directions. One of the most important of these is to try to break the \(\frac{1}{2}\)-barrier when \(f\) is a classical arithmetic function. In this work, the authors consider the case \(f = \Lambda\) the von Mangoldt function, a particularly interesting case in view of the very well-known equivalence \[\sum_{n \leqslant x} \Lambda (n) = x + O_\varepsilon \left( x^{1/2+\varepsilon} \right) \iff \textrm{Riemann Hypothesis}.\] In a forthcoming article to be published in the International Journal of Number Theory, the reviewer establishes among other things the estimate \[\sum_{n \leqslant x} \Lambda \left( \left \lfloor \frac{x}{n} \right \rfloor \right) = x \sum_{d=1}^\infty \frac{\Lambda(d)}{d(d+1)} + O_\varepsilon \left(x^{97/203 + \varepsilon} \right).\] The authors sharpen here the exponent \(\frac{97}{203} \approx 0.4778\) to \(\frac{9}{19} \approx 0.4736\). The main novelty of this paper is the use of a new triple exponential sum of type II, instead of a double exponential sum of type II used by the reviewer.

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