Efficient prime counting and the Chebyshev primes
Abstract
The function is known to be positive up to the (very large) Skewes' number. Besides, according to Robin's work, the functions and are positive if and only if Riemann hypothesis (RH) holds (the first and the second Chebyshev function are and , respectively, is the logarithmic integral, and are the M\"obius and the Von Mangoldt functions). Negative jumps in the above functions , and may potentially occur only at (the set of primes). One denotes and one investigates the jumps , and . In particular, , and for . Besides, for any odd , an infinite set of so-called {\it Chebyshev primes } with partial list . We establish a few properties of the set , give accurate approximations of the jump and relate the derivation of to the explicit Mangoldt formula for . In the context of RH, we introduce the so-called {\it Riemann primes} as champions of the function (or of the function ). Finally, we find a {\it good} prime counting function , that is found to be much better than the standard Riemann prime counting function.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1109.6489,
title = {Efficient prime counting and the Chebyshev primes},
author = {Michel Planat and Patrick Solé},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.6489},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
15 pages section 2.2 added, new sequences added, Fig. 2 and 3 are new