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On the number of primes up to the $n$th Ramanujan prime

Christian Axler
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The $n$th Ramanujan prime is the smallest positive integer $R_n$ such that for all $x \geq R_n$ the interval $(x/2, x]$ contains at least $n$ primes. In this paper we undertake a study of the sequence $(π(R_n))_{n \in \mathbb{N}}$, which tells us where the $n$th Ramanujan prime appears in the sequence of all primes. In the first part we establish new explicit upper and lower bounds for the number of primes up to the $n$th Ramanujan prime, which imply an asymptotic formula for $π(R_n)$ conjectured by Yang and Togbé. In the second part of this paper, we use these explicit estimates to derive a result concerning an inequality involving $π(R_n)$ conjectured by of Sondow, Nicholson and Noe.

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Christian Axler. 2017-11-13. On the number of primes up to the $n$th Ramanujan prime. https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.04588

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