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We establish the existence of infinitely many \emph{polynomial} progressions in the primes; more precisely, given any integer-valued polynomials $P_1, >..., P_k \in \Z[\m]$ in one unknown $\m$ with $P_1(0) = ... = P_k(0) = 0$ and any $\eps…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-01 Terence Tao , Tamar Ziegler

We determine the order of magnitude of $\mathbb{E}|\sum_{n \leq x} f(n)|^{2q}$ up to factors of size $e^{O(q^2)}$, where $f(n)$ is a Steinhaus or Rademacher random multiplicative function, for all real $1 \leq q \leq \frac{c\log x}{\log\log…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Adam J. Harper

Let $x \in \mathbb{R}$ be arbitrary and consider the `greedy' approximation of $x$ by signed harmonic sums: given $a_n = \sum_{k \leq n} \varepsilon_k/k$ with $\varepsilon_k \in \left\{-1,1\right\}$, we set $\varepsilon_{n+1} = 1$ if $a_n…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Stefan Steinerberger

The partition function $p(n)$ and many of its related restricted partition functions have recently been shown independently to satisfy log-concavity: $p(n)^2 \geq p(n-1)p(n+1)$ for $n\geq 26$, and satisfy the inequality: $p(n)p(m) \geq…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Arindam Roy

This article provides new asymptotic results for the summatory Mobius function $\sum_{p \leq x} \mu(p+a) =O \left (x(\log x)^{-c} \right )$ and the summatory Liouville function $\sum_{p \leq x} \lambda(p+a) =O \left (x(\log x)^{-c} \right…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2022-07-26 N. A. Carella

A sequence of $d+1$ signs $+$ and $-$ beginning with a $+$ is called a {\em sign pattern (SP)}. We say that the real polynomial $P:=x^d+\sum _{j=0}^{d-1}a_jx^j$, $a_j\neq 0$, defines the SP $\sigma :=(+$,sgn$(a_{d-1})$, $\ldots$,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-03-16 Hassen Cheriha , Yousra Gati , Vladimir Petrov Kostov

Using the theory of metaplectic forms,we study the asymptotic behavior of cubic exponential sums over the ring of Eisenstein integers. In the first part of the paper, some non-trivial estimates on average over arithmetic progressions are…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2011-11-03 Benoit Louvel

Let P(k) be the largest prime factor of the positive integer k. In this paper, we prove that the series $\sum_{n\ge 1}\frac{(\log n)^a}{P(2^n-1)}$ is convergent for each constant a<1/2, which gives a more precise form of a result of C. L.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2009-06-18 Kevin Ford , Florian Luca , Igor E. Shparlinski

We consider the problem of $\Omega$ bounds for the partial sums of a modified character, \textit{i.e.}, a completely multiplicative function $f$ such that $f(p)=\chi(p)$ for all but a finite number of primes $p$, where $\chi$ is a primitive…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Marco Aymone

We prove a highly uniform version of the prime number theorem for a certain class of $L$-functions. The range of $x$ depends polynomially on the analytic conductor, and the error term is expressed in terms of an optimization problem…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Ikuya Kaneko , Jesse Thorner

This is a new proof of the tauberian theorem of complex Laplace transformation for getting a simple proof of the prime numbers theorem $\pi(x) \sim \frac{x}{\log(x)}$ for a largest real $x$.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Lahoucine Elaissaoui

For a prime number $p$ and integer $x$ with $\gcd(x,p)=1$ let $\overline{x}$ denote the multiplicative inverse of $x$ modulo $p.$ In the present paper we are interested in the problem of distribution modulo $p$ of the sequence $$…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Moubariz Z. Garaev , Igor E. Shparlinski

We study sums of a random multiplicative function; this is an example, of number-theoretic interest, of sums of products of independent random variables (chaoses). Using martingale methods, we establish a normal approximation for the sum…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2010-12-02 Adam J. Harper

In this paper, we prove the twin prime conjecture showing that \begin{align} \sum \limits_{\substack{p\leq x\\p,p+2\in \mathbb{P}}}1\geq (1+o(1))\frac{x}{2\mathcal{C}\log^2 x}\nonumber \end{align} where $\mathcal{C}:=\mathcal{C}(2)>0$ fixed…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Theophilus Agama

Let $p_n$ denote the $n$-th prime number, $\{q_n\}$ be a sequence of positive numbers and $x\in\mathbb{R}$. In this note we prove that the inequality $$q_n p_{n+1}^{x}-q_{n+1}p_{n}^{x}<p_{n}^{x}p_{n+1}^{x-1}, $$ holds for infinitely many…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-11 Douglas Azevedo , Tiago Reis

The standard approximation of a natural logarithm in statistical analysis interprets a linear change of \(p\) in \(\ln(X)\) as a \((1+p)\) proportional change in \(X\), which is only accurate for small values of \(p\). I suggest…

Econometrics · Economics 2021-10-07 Nick Huntington-Klein

We prove that if $f(n)$ is a Steinhaus or Rademacher random multiplicative function, there almost surely exist arbitrarily large values of $x$ for which $|\sum_{n \leq x} f(n)| \geq \sqrt{x} (\log\log x)^{1/4+o(1)}$. This is the first such…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Adam J. Harper

The results of the computer investigation of the sign changes of the difference between the number of twin primes $\pi_2(x)$ and the Hardy--Littlewood conjecture $c_2\Li_2(x)$ are reported. It turns out that $\pi_2(x) - c_2\Li_2(x)$ changes…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2008-01-15 Marek Wolf

In 1874, Mertens proved the approximate formula for partial Euler product for Riemann zeta function at $s=1$, which is called Mertens' theorem. In this paper, we generalize Mertens' theorem for Selberg class and show the prime number…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-21 Yoshikatsu Yashiro

In this paper, we study the average size of the product of a number and its multiplicative inverse modulo a prime p. This turns out to be related to moments of L-functions and leads to a curious asymptotic formula for a certain triple…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-30 Tsz Ho Chan