The Shanks–Rényi prime number race problem

Speaker: Youness Lamzouri

Date: Mon, Jun 17, 2024

Location: PIMS, University of British Columbia

Conference: Comparative Prime Number Theory

Subject: Mathematics, Number Theory

Class: Scientific

CRG: L-Functions in Analytic Number Theory

Abstract:

Let π(x;q,a) be the number of primes px such that pa(modq). The classical Shanks–Rényi prime number race problem asks, given positive integers q3 and 2rϕ(q) and distinct reduced residue classes a1,a2,...,ar modulo q, whether there are infinitely many integers n such that π(n;q,a1)>π(n;q,a2)>>π(n;q,ar). In this talk, I will describe what is known on this problem when the number of competitors r3, and how this compares to the Chebyshev’s bias case which corresponds to r=2.

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