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Sharper bounds for the error term in the Prime Number Theorem

Number Theory 2023-05-18 v2

Abstract

We provide very effective methods to convert both asymptotic and explicit numeric bounds on the prime counting function ψ(x)\psi(x) to bounds of the same type on both θ(x)\theta(x) and π(x)\pi(x). This follows up our previous work on ψ(x)\psi(x) in \cite{FKS}, and prove that π(x)Li(x)9.2211xlog(x)exp(0.8476log(x)) | \pi(x) - \mathrm{Li}(x) | \leq 9.2211\, x\sqrt{\log(x)} \exp \big( -0.8476 \sqrt{\log(x)} \big) for all x2x\ge 2. Additionally, we are able to obtain the best numeric bounds for xx on a very large interval (all xx up to exp(1.8109)\exp(1.8\cdot10^9)).

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2206.12557,
  title  = {Sharper bounds for the error term in the Prime Number Theorem},
  author = {Andrew Fiori and Habiba Kadiri and Joshua Swidinsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.12557},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

19 pages with 7 tables, see previous arxiv version for ancillary file (167 pages) which includes more detailed tables