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A Variational Barban-Davenport-Halberstam Theorem

Number Theory 2012-02-07 v2

Abstract

We prove variational forms of the Barban-Davenport-Halberstam Theorem and the large sieve inequality. We apply our result to prove an estimate for the sum of the squares of prime differences, averaged over arithmetic progressions.

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@article{arxiv.1111.6190,
  title  = {A Variational Barban-Davenport-Halberstam Theorem},
  author = {Allison Lewko and Mark Lewko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.6190},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

23 pages, some typos fixed, additional remarks added at end of paper

R2 v1 2026-06-21T19:41:58.625Z