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 x→∞x\to\infty, consider the sum

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

Asymptotic formula.

∑p≤xϕ([xp])∼1ζ(2)xlog⁡log⁡x.\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 1−1/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.

References

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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