Chebyshev's bias and generalized Riemann hypothesis
Abstract
It is well known that (i) up to the (very large) Skewes' number \cite{Bays00}. But, according to a Littlewood's theorem, there exist infinitely many that violate the inequality, due to the specific distribution of non-trivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function , encoded by the equation (1). If Riemann hypothesis (RH) holds, (i) may be replaced by the equivalent statement (ii) due to Robin \cite{Robin84}. A statement similar to (i) was found by Chebyshev that (iii) holds for any \cite{Rubin94} (the notation means the number of primes up to and congruent to ). The {\it Chebyshev's bias}(iii) is related to the generalized Riemann hypothesis (GRH) and occurs with a logarithmic density \cite{Rubin94}. In this paper, we reformulate the Chebyshev's bias for a general modulus as the inequality (iv), where is a counting function introduced in Robin's paper \cite{Robin84} and resp. ) is a quadratic residue modulo (resp. a non-quadratic residue). We investigate numerically the case and a few prime moduli . Then, we proove that (iv) is equivalent to GRH for the modulus .
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@article{arxiv.1112.2398,
title = {Chebyshev's bias and generalized Riemann hypothesis},
author = {Adel Alamadhi and Michel Planat and Patrick Solé},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.2398},
year = {2013}
}
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9 pages