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arXiv · 2411.07436

On variants of Chebyshev's conjecture

Abstract

We show that the sign constancy for the values of certain weighted summatory functions of the von Mangoldt function implies the Riemann hypothesis or the generalized Riemann hypothesis for Dirichlet $L$-functions. While such sign constancy is challenging to establish individually, we prove that the summatory functions under study have constant signs on average.

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Masatoshi Suzuki. 2025-11-10. On variants of Chebyshev's conjecture. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11139-025-01238-9

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