Friedlander–Granville conjecture on primes in arithmetic progressions

Let x1x\geq 1, let qxq\leq x, and let aa be a residue class modulo qq. Define the prime-counting error term E(x;q,a)\mathcal{E}(x;q,a) by

nxna(modq)Λ(n)=xφ(q)+E(x;q,a).\sum_{\substack{n \leq x \\ n \equiv a \pmod q}} \Lambda(n)=\frac{x}{\varphi(q)}+\mathcal{E}(x;q,a).

Friedlander–Granville conjecture. For every fixed ε>0\varepsilon>0,

E(x;q,a)(xq)1/2xε.\mathcal{E}(x;q,a)\ll \left(\frac{x}{q}\right)^{1/2}x^{\varepsilon}.

This conjecture predicts square-root-size errors uniformly for qxq\leq x and is stronger than what the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis gives when qq is a positive power of xx. Under the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis, Turán's result for the corresponding variance is consistent with this conjectural pointwise bound.

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Pierre Le Boudec, “On the distribution of squarefree integers in arithmetic progressions”, arXiv:1411.2360 (2014).

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