New estimates for the $n$th prime number

Abstract

In this paper we establish a new explicit upper and lower bound for the $n$-th prime number, which improve the currently best estimates given by Dusart in 2010. As the main tool we use some recently obtained explicit estimates for the prime counting function. A further main tool is the usage of estimates concerning the reciprocal of $\log p_n$. As an application we derive refined estimates for $\vartheta (p_n)$ in terms of $n$, where $\vartheta (x)$ is Chebyshev's $\vartheta$-function.

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