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)=mxΛ(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+1Px+1\in\mathcal P, where P\mathcal P is the set of primes, and

limp[ηN(p)ηN(p1)]=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.

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Primary source

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

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