Conjecture on absolute moments of primes in short intervals

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Let XX be large, let hh be a positive real parameter, and let ψ(x)=∑n≤xΛ(n)\psi(x)=\sum_{n\leq x}\Lambda(n) be Chebyshev's function. For fixed ϵ>0\epsilon>0 and λ>0\lambda>0, define E=2πeC0−1E=2\pi e^{C_0-1}, where C0C_0 is Euler's constant. Absolute-moment conjecture. For Xϵ≤h≤X1−ϵX^{\epsilon}\leq h\leq X^{1-\epsilon},

∫1X∣ψ(x+h)−ψ(x)−h∣λ dx=Γ(λ+1)Γ(λ2+1)2λ/2hλ/2+1∫EX/h(log⁡xE)λ/2 dx+o(Xhλ/2).\int_{1}^{X}|\psi(x+h)-\psi(x)-h|^{\lambda}\,dx=\frac{\Gamma(\lambda+1)}{\Gamma\left({\lambda\over2}+1\right)2^{\lambda/2}}h^{\lambda/2+1}\int_{E}^{X/h}\left(\log{x\over E}\right)^{\lambda/2}\,dx+o(Xh^{\lambda/2}).

This extends the first main terms proved in the paper's theorems to arbitrary positive moments and predicts the full asymptotic uniformly throughout the indicated short-interval range; its resolution is not supplied here.

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Tsz Ho Chan, “Higher moments of primes in short intervals II”, arXiv:math/0409531 (2004).

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