On a logarithmic sum related to a natural quadratic sieve
Number Theory
2023-01-23 v6
Abstract
We study the sum , , so that a continuous, monotonic and explicit version of Selberg's sieve can be stated. Thanks to Barban-Vehov (1968), Motohashi (1974) and Graham (1978), it has been long known, but never explicitly, that is asymptotic to . In this article, we discover not only that for all , but also we find a closed-form expression for its secondary order term of , a constant , which we are able to estimate explicitly when . We thus have , for some explicit constant , where and . As an application, we show how our result gives an explicit version of the Brun-Titchmarsh theorem within a range.
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@article{arxiv.2005.04280,
title = {On a logarithmic sum related to a natural quadratic sieve},
author = {Sebastian Zuniga Alterman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.04280},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
accepted in Acta Arithmetica