Friedlander–Granville–Montgomery conjecture on primes in arithmetic progressions

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Let xx be real, let q<xq<x be a positive integer, let aa satisfy (a,q)=1(a,q)=1, and let π(x;q,a)\pi(x;q,a) count primes p≤xp\leq x with p≡a(modq)p\equiv a\pmod q. Let φ(q)\varphi(q) denote Euler's totient function. Friedlander–Granville–Montgomery conjecture. For every ε>0\varepsilon>0, one has

∣π(x;q,a)−π(x)φ(q)∣≪ε(x/q)1/2xε.\left|\pi(x;q,a)-\frac{\pi(x)}{\varphi(q)}\right|\ll_\varepsilon (x/q)^{1/2}x^\varepsilon.

In particular, the prime number theorem for arithmetic progressions holds uniformly for q≪x1−3εq\ll x^{1-3\varepsilon}. This corrected estimate is presented after Montgomery's stronger conjecture is described as overly optimistic, and it is then used to analyze the prime-generation algorithm.

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Pierre-Alain Fouque and Mehdi Tibouchi, “Close to Uniform Prime Number Generation With Fewer Random Bits”, arXiv:1406.7078 (2014).

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