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Prime number theorem for regular Toeplitz subshifts

Part of:Multiplicative number theoryTopological dynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2021

KRZYSZTOF FRĄCZEKOpen the ORCID record for KRZYSZTOF FRĄCZEK[Opens in a new window],
ADAM KANIGOWSKI and
MARIUSZ LEMAŃCZYK
KRZYSZTOF FRĄCZEK*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Nicolaus Copernicus University, ul. Chopina 12/18, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
ADAM KANIGOWSKI
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, 4176 Campus Drive, William E. Kirwan Hall, College Park, MD 20742-4015, USA (e-mail: akanigow@umd.edu)
MARIUSZ LEMAŃCZYK
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Nicolaus Copernicus University, ul. Chopina 12/18, 87-100 Toruń, Poland (e-mail: mlem@mat.umk.pl)
*
e-mail: fraczek@mat.umk.pl
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Abstract

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We prove that neither a prime nor an l-almost prime number theorem holds in the class of regular Toeplitz subshifts. But when a quantitative strengthening of the regularity with respect to the periodic structure involving Euler’s totient function is assumed, then the two theorems hold.

Keywords

almost prime numberspolynomial ergodic theoremsprime number theoremToeplitz systems

MSC classification

Primary:37B10: Symbolic dynamics
Secondary:11N05: Distribution of primes11N13: Primes in progressions

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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 42 , Issue 4 , April 2022, pp. 1446 - 1473
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