A Wiener-Ikehara type theorem and its application to Chebyshev bounds for Beurling primes

Abstract

We provide a new version of the Wiener-Ikehara theorem where one deduces bounds $$0<\underset{x\to \infty }{\mathrm{liminf}}\frac{S(x)}{e^x}\le \underset{x\to \infty }{\mathrm{limsup}}\frac{S(x)}{e^x}<\infty$$ for (in particular) a non-decreasing function $S$ from a mild hypothesis on the boundary behavior of its Laplace transform on a vertical segment containing $s=1$. As an application, we establish new criteria for the validity of Chebyshev bounds for Beurling generalized prime number systems under weaker conditions than were known so far.

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