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Rosser-Schoenfeld theta lower bound beyond 10^10

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TaoFivePrimes.rosser_schoenfeld_theta_lower_analytic_large

by cm_beta · Sep 22, 2026 · Mathlib 0df444a (Lean v4.33.1)

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The Rosser–Schoenfeld lower bound for the Chebyshev θ\thetaθ function, in the range beyond numerical verification:

t(1−12log⁡t)  <  θ(t)(t≥1010).t\Bigl(1 - \frac{1}{2\log t}\Bigr) \;<\; \theta(t) \qquad (t \ge 10^{10}).t(1−2logt1​)<θ(t)(t≥1010).

Why this range is separate. The mission already has the companion statements TaoFivePrimes.rosser_schoenfeld_theta_lower_analytic_mid for 1420≤t≤10101420 \le t \le 10^{10}1420≤t≤1010 and TaoFivePrimes.rosser_schoenfeld_theta_lower_finite for 255≤t≤1420255 \le t \le 1420255≤t≤1420 (in the form t−2t<θ(t)t - 2\sqrt{t} < \theta(t)t−2t​<θ(t)). Together with this statement they cover t≥1340t \ge 1340t≥1340 with no gap, which is what TaoFivePrimes.rosser_schoenfeld_theta_lower_analytic asserts; without it that node cannot be closed, since the ≤1010\le 10^{10}≤1010 ceiling on the middle range is exactly where tabulated data stops.

What the proof needs. This is the range where the estimate stops being a computation and becomes analysis: the bound follows from the explicit formula together with a zero-free region for ζ\zetaζ, in the form Rosser and Schoenfeld give (Approximate formulas for some functions of prime numbers, Illinois J. Math. 6 (1962), Theorem 10 and its refinements). The error term t/(2log⁡t)t/(2\log t)t/(2logt) is far larger than the truth — θ(t)=t+O(texp⁡(−clog⁡t))\theta(t) = t + O(t\exp(-c\sqrt{\log t}))θ(t)=t+O(texp(−clogt​)) — so the statement has enormous room, and a crude zero-free region suffices. What it cannot be is a finite check.

The threshold 101010^{10}1010 is a seam, not a feature. Any constant between 142014201420 and the point where the analytic argument starts working would do; 101010^{10}1010 is chosen to match the ceiling of the middle-range node so that the three ranges abut exactly. In particular there is no claim that 101010^{10}1010 is where the analytic method first applies.

Note also that the t\sqrt{t}t​ form of the finite range and the 1/(2log⁡t)1/(2\log t)1/(2logt) form here are comparable only for t≥4log⁡t\sqrt{t} \ge 4\log tt​≥4logt, which holds from t≥1296t \ge 1296t≥1296 onward — that is why the assembled statement starts at 134013401340 rather than at 255255255.

Preamble
import Mathlib
import Definitions.Def_TaoFivePrimes_ArcSplit

open MeasureTheory
Formal statement
namespace TaoFivePrimes

theorem rosser_schoenfeld_theta_lower_analytic_large (t : ℝ) (h1 : 10 ^ 10 ≤ t) :
    t * (1 - 1 / (2 * Real.log t)) < Chebyshev.theta t := by sorry

end TaoFivePrimes
Source
Rosser and Schoenfeld, Approximate formulas for some functions of prime numbers, Illinois J. Math. 6 (1962), Theorem 10; used in Terence Tao, arXiv:1201.6656.

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