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New estimates for the $n$th prime number

Number Theory 2018-10-05 v2

Abstract

In this paper we establish a new explicit upper and lower bound for the nn-th prime number, which improve the currently best estimates given by Dusart in 2010. As the main tool we use some recently obtained explicit estimates for the prime counting function. A further main tool is the usage of estimates concerning the reciprocal of logpn\log p_n. As an application we derive refined estimates for ϑ(pn)\vartheta(p_n) in terms of nn, where ϑ(x)\vartheta(x) is Chebyshev's ϑ\vartheta-function.

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@article{arxiv.1706.03651,
  title  = {New estimates for the $n$th prime number},
  author = {Christian Axler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.03651},
  year   = {2018}
}

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17 pages;

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