Sharper bounds for the error in the prime number theorem assuming the Riemann Hypothesis
Number Theory
2025-10-03 v4
Abstract
In this paper, we establish new bounds for classical prime-counting functions. All of our bounds are explicit and assume the Riemann Hypothesis. First, we prove that and are bounded from above by for all and respectively, where and are the Chebyshev and functions. Using the extra precision offered by these results, we also prove new explicit descriptions for the error in each of Mertens' theorems which improve earlier bounds by Schoenfeld.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2312.05628,
title = {Sharper bounds for the error in the prime number theorem assuming the Riemann Hypothesis},
author = {Ethan Simpson Lee and Paweł Nosal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.05628},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
Big update over previous versions of the paper, wherein we have streamlined all of our arguments to improve readability of the paper