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On the symmetry of primes

Number Theory 2011-05-31 v9

Abstract

We prove a kind of "almost all symmetry" result for the primes, i.e. we give non-trivial bounds for the "symmetry integral", say IΛ(N,h)I_{\Lambda}(N,h), of the von Mangoldt function Λ(n)\Lambda(n) (:=logp:= \log p for prime-powers n=prn=p^r, 0 otherwise). We get IΛ(N,h)NhL5+Nh21/20L2I_{\Lambda}(N,h)\ll NhL^5+Nh^{21/20}L^2, with L:=logNL:=\log N; as a Corollary, we bound non-trivially the Selberg integral of the primes, i.e. the mean-square of x<nx+hΛ(n)h\sum_{x<n\le x+h}\Lambda(n)-h, over x[N,2N]x\in [N,2N], to get the "Prime Number Theorem in almost all short intervals" of (log-powers!) length hL11/2+ϵh\ge L^{11/2+\epsilon}. We trust here in the improvement of the exponent, say c<11/2c<11/2.

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@article{arxiv.1009.6121,
  title  = {On the symmetry of primes},
  author = {Giovanni Coppola},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.6121},
  year   = {2011}
}

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The paper has been withdrawn by the Author see 1103.4451v2 comments