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WATT'S MEAN VALUE THEOREM AND CARMICHAEL NUMBERS

2008/04/01 by Glyn Harman · 1 citation
Mathematics · #Analytic Number Theory Research #Mathematics and Applications #History and Theory of Mathematics

paper · doi:10.1142/s1793042108001316

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Abstract

It is shown that Watt's new mean value theorem on sums of character sums can be included in the method described in the author's recent work [6] to show that the number of Carmichael numbers up to x exceeds x ⅓ for all large x. This is done by comparing the application of Watt's original version of his mean value theorem [8] to the problem of primes in short intervals [3] with the problem of finding "small" primes in an arithmetic progression.

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