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On some problems of primes with the floor function

Number Theory 2023-09-01 v1

Abstract

Let [x]\left[x\right] be the largest integer not exceeding xx. For 0<θ10<\theta \leq 1, let πθ(x)\pi_{\theta}(x) denote the number of integers nn with 1nxθ1 \leq n \leq x^{\theta} such that [xn]\left[\frac{x}{n}\right] is prime and SP(x)S_{\mathbb{P}}(x) denote the number of primes in the sequence {[xn]}n1\left\{\left[\frac{x}{n}\right]\right\}_{n \geqslant 1}. In this paper, we obtain the asymptotic formula πθ(x)=xθ(1θ)logx+O(xθ(logx)2) \pi_{\theta}(x)=\frac{x^{\theta}}{(1-\theta) \log x}+O\left(x^{\theta}(\log x)^{-2}\right) provide that 435923<θ<1\frac{435}{923}<\theta<1, and prove that SP(x)=xp1p(p+1)+Oε(x435/923+ε) S_{\mathbb{P}}(x)=x\sum_{p} \frac{1}{p(p+1)}+O_{\varepsilon}\left(x^{435/923+\varepsilon}\right) for xx \rightarrow \infty. Thus improve the previous result due to Ma, Wu and the author.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2308.16301,
  title  = {On some problems of primes with the floor function},
  author = {Runbo Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.16301},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

8 pages. The second version is a complete improvement on the first version, so we only present the best results

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