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ON THE MONTGOMERY–HOOLEY THEOREM IN SHORT INTERVALS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2010

A. Languasco
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica Pura e Applicata, Università di Padova, Via Trieste 63, 35121 Padova, Italy (email: [email protected])
A. Perelli
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Genova, via Dodecaneso 35, 16146 Genova, Italy (email: [email protected])
A. Zaccagnini
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 53/a, Campus Universitario, 43124 Parma, Italy (email: [email protected])
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Abstract

We prove two results about the asymptotic formula for The first result is for x7/12+εhx and h/(log x)BQh, where ε,B>0 are arbitrary constants. For the second result we assume that the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis holds and we obtain a stronger error term and a better uniformity on h.

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Copyright © University College London 2010

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