{ "id": "1009.6121", "version": "v9", "published": "2010-09-29T11:06:17.000Z", "updated": "2011-05-30T10:14:50.000Z", "title": "On the symmetry of primes", "authors": [ "Giovanni Coppola" ], "comment": "The paper has been withdrawn by the Author see 1103.4451v2 comments", "categories": [ "math.NT" ], "abstract": "We prove a kind of \"almost all symmetry\" result for the primes, i.e. we give non-trivial bounds for the \"symmetry integral\", say $I_{\\Lambda}(N,h)$, of the von Mangoldt function $\\Lambda(n)$ ($:= \\log p$ for prime-powers $n=p^r$, 0 otherwise). We get $I_{\\Lambda}(N,h)\\ll NhL^5+Nh^{21/20}L^2$, with $L:=\\log N$; as a Corollary, we bound non-trivially the Selberg integral of the primes, i.e. the mean-square of $\\sum_{x