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A new theorem on the prime-counting function

Number Theory 2017-01-11 v6 Combinatorics

Abstract

For x>0x>0 let π(x)\pi(x) denote the number of primes not exceeding xx. For integers aa and m>0m>0, we determine when there is an integer n>1n>1 with π(n)=(n+a)/m\pi(n)=(n+a)/m. In particular, we show that for any integers m>2m>2 and aem1/(m1)a\le\lceil e^{m-1}/(m-1)\rceil there is an integer n>1n>1 with π(n)=(n+a)/m\pi(n)=(n+a)/m. Consequently, for any integer m>4m>4 there is a positive integer nn with π(mn)=m+n\pi(mn)=m+n. We also pose several conjectures for further research; for example, we conjecture that for each m=1,2,3,m=1,2,3,\ldots there is a positive integer nn such that m+nm+n divides pm+pnp_m+p_n, where pkp_k denotes the kk-th prime.

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@article{arxiv.1409.5685,
  title  = {A new theorem on the prime-counting function},
  author = {Zhi-Wei Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.5685},
  year   = {2017}
}

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10 pages

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