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On a problem of Barban and Vehov

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Matti Jutila
Matti Jutila
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Department of Mathematics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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Barban and Vehov posed in [1] the problem of minimizing the quadratic form

under the conditions

where 1 ≤ z1 < z2 and μ(n) is the Möbius function. They also commented on the connections of this problem with zero-density estimates of L-functions near the lines δ = 1 and ½, and with Linnik's prime number theorem. This program was carried out some years later by other authors, in the first place by Selberg [10], and later by Motohashi ([7]–[9]), Graham [2] and the present author ([4], [5]).

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Mathematika , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , June 1979 , pp. 62 - 71
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Copyright © University College London 1979

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