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New upper bounds for Ramanujan primes

Number Theory 2017-06-23 v1

Abstract

For n1n\ge 1, the nthn^{\rm th} Ramanujan prime is defined as the smallest positive integer RnR_n such that for all xRnx\ge R_n, the interval (x2,x](\frac{x}{2}, x] has at least nn primes. We show that for every ϵ>0\epsilon>0, there is a positive integer NN such that if α=2n(1+log2+ϵlogn+j(n))\alpha=2n\left(1+\dfrac{\log 2+\epsilon}{\log n+j(n)}\right), then Rn<p[α]R_n< p_{[\alpha]} for all n>Nn>N, where pip_i is the ithi^{\rm th} prime and j(n)>0j(n)>0 is any function that satisfies j(n)j(n)\to \infty and nj(n)0nj'(n)\to 0.

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@article{arxiv.1706.07241,
  title  = {New upper bounds for Ramanujan primes},
  author = {Anitha Srinivasan and Pablo Arés},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.07241},
  year   = {2017}
}
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