Unboundedness conjecture for the prime-index partial sums

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Let x≥1x\geq 1 and define the prime-index function by ι(n)=(−1)π(n)\iota(n)=(-1)^{\pi(n)}, where π(n)\pi(n) is the prime-counting function. Define its partial sums by

ξ(x)=∑n≤xι(n).\xi(x)=\sum_{n\leq x}\iota(n).

Unboundedness conjecture. For every N≥N0N\geq N_0, where N0>0N_0>0 is sufficiently large, the supremum of these partial sums satisfies

sup⁡x≥1{∑n≤x(−1)π(n)}≥N.\sup_{x\geq 1}\left\{\sum_{n\leq x}(-1)^{\pi(n)}\right\}\geq N.

The claim asserts that the prime-index partial sums are unbounded above. The source presents it as a belief motivated by the observed distribution of ξ(x)\xi(x), but gives no resolution.

References

Primary source

Theophilus Agama, “The prime index function”, arXiv:1905.03112 (2019).

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