{ "id": "1401.2689", "version": "v2", "published": "2014-01-13T00:47:15.000Z", "updated": "2014-10-17T01:59:44.000Z", "title": "Updating the error term in the prime number theorem", "authors": [ "Tim Trudgian" ], "comment": "I wish to thank MG Johnson, RJ Harris, PM Siddle, and NM Lyon, all of whom enabled me to work two extra days on this article; 13 pages; to appear in Ramanujan J", "categories": [ "math.NT" ], "abstract": "An improved estimate is given for $|\\theta(x) -x|$, where $\\theta(x) = \\sum_{p\\leq x} \\log p$. Three applications are given: the first to arithmetic progressions that have points in common, the second to primes in short intervals, and the third to a conjecture by C. Pomerance.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2014-01-13T00:47:15.000Z", "comment": "I wish to thank MG Johnson, RJ Harris, PM Siddle, and NM Lyon, all of whom enabled me to work two extra days on this article", "journal": null, "doi": null }, { "version": "v2", "updated": "2014-10-17T01:59:44.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "11N27", "11M26" ], "keywords": [ "prime number theorem", "error term", "arithmetic progressions", "short intervals", "applications" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 13, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2014arXiv1401.2689T" } } }