2009-11-01
Average prime-pair counting formula
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Taking $r>0$, let $\pi_{2r}(x)$ denote the number of prime pairs $(p,\,p+2r)$ with $p\le x$. The prime-pair conjecture of Hardy and Littlewood (1923) asserts that $\pi_{2r}(x)\sim 2C_{2r}\,{\rm li}_2(x)$ with an explicit constant $C_{2r}>0$. There seems to be no good conjecture for the remainders $\om_{2r}(x)=\pi_{2r(x)-2C_{2r}\,{\rm li}_2(x)$ that corresponds to Riemann's formula for $\pi(x)-{\rm li}(x)$. However, there is a heuristic approximate formula for averages of the remainders $\om_{2r}(x)$ which is supported by numerical results.
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Korevaar, J., & te Riele, H. (2009). Average prime-pair counting formula. CWI. Probability, Networks and Algorithms [PNA]. CWI. |
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