The prime-indexed Abelian limit conjecture

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Let f(n)f(n) be an arithmetic function, let pnp_n denote the nnth prime, and let idx(pn)=n\operatorname{idx}(p_n)=n. Suppose that the Cesàro mean

limN1Nk=1Nf(k)=Lf\lim_{N\to\infty}\frac{1}{N}\sum_{k=1}^{N}f(k)=L_f

exists. Prime-indexed Abelian limit conjecture. Then

lims1+pPf(idx(p))pspPps=Lf.\lim_{s\to 1^+}\frac{\sum_{p\in\mathbb P}f\left(\operatorname{idx}(p)\right)p^{-s}}{\sum_{p\in\mathbb P}p^{-s}}=L_f.

This extends the analogy between Abelian limits for power series and prime-indexed Dirichlet series; the indicator-function case recovers the known equality between Dirichlet and natural densities for subsets of the primes. The general assertion is presented as speculative and no resolution is supplied.

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Primary source

Madeline Locus Dawsey, Matthew Just and Robert Schneider, “A "supernormal" partition statistic”, arXiv:2107.14284 (2021).

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