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
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 p≤x such that p≡a(modq). The classical Shanks–Rényi prime number race problem asks, given positive integers q≥3 and 2≤r≤ϕ(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 r≥3, and how this compares to the Chebyshev’s bias case which corresponds to r=2.
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