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

lim⁡N→∞1N∑k=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

lim⁡s→1+∑p∈Pf(idx⁡(p))p−s∑p∈Pp−s=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.

References

Primary source

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

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