Negative-jump conjecture for the truncated psi-based prime-counting function

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Let μ\mu be the Möbius function, let ψ(x)=∑m≤xΛ(m)\psi(x)=\sum_{m\leq x}\Lambda(m), and for an integer N>1N>1 define

ηN(x)=∑n=1Nμ(n)nli⁡[ψ(x)1/n]−π(x).\eta_N(x)=\sum_{n=1}^N\frac{\mu(n)}{n}\operatorname{li}[\psi(x)^{1/n}]-\pi(x).

Negative-jump conjecture. Negative jumps of ηN(x)\eta_N(x) occur at every point x+1∈Px+1\in\mathcal P, where P\mathcal P is the set of primes, and

lim⁡p→∞[ηN(p)−ηN(p−1)]=0.\lim_{p\to\infty}[\eta_N(p)-\eta_N(p-1)]=0.

For N>1N>1, this is based on numerical observations that the negative jumps occur at all relevant primes and decrease in amplitude toward zero.

References

Primary source

Michel Planat and Patrick Solé, “Efficient prime counting and the Chebyshev primes”, arXiv:1109.6489 (2011).

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