Watt's mean value theorem and Carmichael numbers

被引:20
作者
Harman, Glyn [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ London, Royal Holloway & Bedford New Coll, Dept Math, Egham TW20 0EX, Surrey, England
基金
英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;
关键词
mean value theorems; Dirichlet characters; L-functions; primes in arithmetic progressions; Carmichael numbers; sieve methods; Buchstab's identity;
D O I
10.1142/S1793042108001316
中图分类号
O1 [数学];
学科分类号
0701 ; 070101 ;
摘要
It is shown that Watt's new mean value theorem on sums of character sums can be included in the method described in the author's recent work [6] to show that the number of Carmichael numbers up to x exceeds x(1/3) for all large x. This is done by comparing the application of Watt's original version of his mean value theorem [8] to the problem of primes in short intervals [3] with the problem of finding "small" primes in an arithmetic progression.
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页码:241 / 248
页数:8
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