Asymptotic formula for the totient sum over prime quotients

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Let pp run over primes, let ϕ\phi denote Euler's totient function, and let [y][y] denote the integer part of yy. As xx\to\infty, consider the sum

pxϕ([xp]).\sum_{p\le x}\phi\biggl(\biggl[\frac{x}{p}\biggr]\biggr).

Asymptotic formula.

pxϕ([xp])1ζ(2)xloglogx.\sum_{p\le x}\phi\biggl(\biggl[\frac{x}{p}\biggr]\biggr)\sim \frac{1}{\zeta(2)}x\log\log x.

The preceding theorem gives upper and lower bounds with constants differing from 1/ζ(2)1/\zeta(2) by fixed multiples of 11/ζ(2)1-1/\zeta(2) and 1/ζ(2)1/\zeta(2), respectively. The authors state that proving the asymptotic formula is currently out of reach because of difficulties in estimating the relevant exponential sums.

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Primary source

Kota Saito, Yuta Suzuki, Wataru Takeda and Yuuya Yoshida, “Some remarks on the [x/n]-sequence”, arXiv:2312.15642 (2023).

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