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Pretentious multiplicative functions and the prime number theorem for arithmetic progressions

Number Theory 2019-02-20 v3

Abstract

Building on the concept of pretentious multiplicative functions, we give a new and largely elementary proof of the best result known on the counting function of primes in arithmetic progressions.

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@article{arxiv.1203.0596,
  title  = {Pretentious multiplicative functions and the prime number theorem for arithmetic progressions},
  author = {Dimitris Koukoulopoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.0596},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

21 pages. Final version. Strengthened Lemma 2.4 to fix an error in the proof of Lemma 4.1. Also made some other minor changes. To appear in Compos. Math

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