Analog of the Skewes number for twin primes

Abstract

The results of the computer investigation of the sign changes of the difference between the number of twin primes ${\pi }_2(x)$ and the Hardy--Littlewood conjecture $c_2\Li_2(x)$ are reported. It turns out that $π_2(x) - c_2\Li_2(x)$ changes the sign at unexpectedly low values of $x$ and for $x<2^{42}$ there are over 90000 sign changes of this difference. It is conjectured that the number of sign changes of $π_2(x) - c_2\Li_2(x)$ for $x\in (1,T)$ is given by $\sqrt{T}/\log (T)$.

Changes: New Figure 1 and a few sentences of justification in favor of the conjecture (5) are made

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