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Jaap Korevaar

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arXiv2009

Average prime-pair counting formula

Taking $r>0$, let $π_{2r}(x)$ denote the number of prime pairs $(p, p+2r)$ with $p\le x$. The prime-pair conjecture of Hardy and Littlewood (1923) asserts that $π_{2r}(x)\sim 2C_{2r} {\rm li}_2(x)$ with an explicit constant $C_{2r}>0$. There seems to be no good conjecture for the remainders $ω_{2r}(x)=π_{2r}(x)- 2C_{2r} {\rm li}_2(x)$ that corresponds to Riemann's formula for $π(x)-{\rm li}(x)$. However, there is a heuristic approximate formula for averages of the remainders $ω_{2r}(x)$ which is supported by numerical results.

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arXiv2008

Mean value one of prime-pair constants

For k greater than 1 and r different from 0, let pi^k_{2r}(x) denote the number of prime pairs (p,p^k+2r) with p not exceeding (large) x. By the Bateman-Horn conjecture, the function pi^k_{2r}(x) should be asymptotic to (2/k)C^k_{2r}li_2(x), with certain specific constants C^k_{2r}. Heuristic arguments lead to the conjecture that these constants have mean value one, just like the Hardy-Littlewood constants C_{2r} for prime pairs (p,p+2r). The conjecture is supported by extensive numerical work.

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arXiv2003

A Tauberian Theorem for Laplace Transforms with Pseudofunction Boundary Behavior

The prime number theorem provided the chief impulse for complex Tauberian theory, in which the boundary behavior of a transform in the complex plane plays a crucial role. We consider Laplace transforms of bounded functions. Our Tauberian theorem does not allow first-order poles on the imaginary axis, but any milder singularities, characterized by pseudofunction boundary behavior, are permissible. In this context we obtain a useful Tauberian theorem by exploiting Newman's `contour method'.

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