A logarithmic improvement in the Bombieri-Vinogradov theorem

DOI10.5802/JTNB.1098MaRDI QIDQ2199509zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alisa Sedunova

Publication date 11 September 2020

Published in Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.06660

zbMATH Keywords

large sieveprimes in arithmetic progression

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Primes in congruence classes (11N13) Asymptotic results on arithmetic functions (11N37) Distribution functions associated with additive and positive multiplicative functions (11N60)

Abstract: In this paper we improve the best known to date result of Dress-Iwaniec-Tenenbaum, getting (log x)^2 instead of (log x)^(5/2). We use a weighted form of Vaughan's identity, allowing a smooth truncation inside the procedure, and an estimate due to Barban-Vehov and Graham related to Selberg's sieve. We give effective and non-effective versions of the result.

Review text

The Bombieri-Vinogradov theorem (which yields an estimate for the error terms in the prime number theorem related to arithmetic progressions) plays an important role in analytic number theory, with many and various applications. The best known estimate so far was given by a classical result of Dress, Iwaniec and Tenenbaum [\textit{F. Dress} et al., J. Reine Angew. Math. 340, 53--58 (1983; Zbl 0497.10003)], dating back to 1983. In the present paper, the author improves on this result in the logarithmic term, replacing \((\log x)^{5/2}\) by \((\log x)^2\) in the bound. For this, several tools and methods are applied and nicely and cleverly combined, among others a weighted form of Vaughan's identity and an estimate of \textit{M. B. Barban} and \textit{P. P. Vekhov} [Tr. Mosk. Mat. O.-va 18, 83--90 (1968; Zbl 0167.04003)] related to Selberg's sieve. Both effective and noneffective versions of the result are given.

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