English

Chebyshev's Bias against Splitting and Principal Primes in Global Fields

Number Theory 2022-06-28 v5

Abstract

Reasons for the emergence of Chebyshev's bias were investigated. The Deep Riemann Hypothesis (DRH) enables us to reveal that the bias is a natural phenomenon for achieving a well-balanced disposition of the whole sequence of primes, in the sense that the Euler product converges at the center. By means of a weighted counting function of primes, the authors succeed in expressing magnitudes of the deflection by a certain asymptotic formula under the assumption of DRH, which provides a new formulation of Chebyshev's bias. For any Galois extension of global fields and for any element σ\sigma in the Galois group, we have established a criterion of the bias of primes whose Frobenius elements are equal to σ\sigma under the assumption of DRH. As an application we have obtained a bias toward non-splitting and non-principle primes in abelian extensions under DRH. In positive characteristic cases, DRH is known, and all these results hold unconditionally.

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@article{arxiv.2203.12266,
  title  = {Chebyshev's Bias against Splitting and Principal Primes in Global Fields},
  author = {Miho Aoki and Shin-ya Koyama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.12266},
  year   = {2022}
}