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In the paper http://rgmia.org/papers/v8n2/eepnt.pdf, the author proves that proves an explicit inequality on prime numbers using the gamma function and as a corollary, he showed that.

$$p_n = n \frac{\Gamma'(n)}{\Gamma(n)} + O(n)o(n \ln n).$$

I obtained a stronger form of this result namely

$$p_n = n \ln \frac{\Gamma'(n)}{\Gamma(n-1)} + O\Big(\frac{n\ln\ln n}{\ln n}\Big).$$

The gamma function seems to beautifully approximate $p_n$. To get the same error term using the regular Cipolla's asymptotic expansion of the $p_n$ we would need three terms.

Can someone explain why the gamma function approximated the n-th prime so nicely? Is this a coincidence or is there some underlying phenomenon governing this result that can shed some new light distribution of prime numbers.

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In the paper http://rgmia.org/papers/v8n2/eepnt.pdf, the author proves that proves an explicit inequality on prime numbers using the gamma function and as a corollary, he showed that.

$$p_n = n \ln \frac{\Gamma'(n)}{\Gamma(n)} + O(n).$$

I obtained a stronger form of this result namely

$$p_n = n \ln \frac{\Gamma'(n)}{\Gamma(n-1)} + O\Big(\frac{n\ln\ln n}{\ln n}\Big).$$

The gamma function seems to beautifully approximate $p_n$. To get the same error term using the regular Cipolla's asymptotic expansion of the $p_n$ we would need three terms.

Can someone explain why the gamma function approximated the n-th prime so nicely? Is this a coincidence or is there some underlying phenomenon governing this result that can shed some new light distribution of prime numbers.

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# Asymptotics of the n-th prime using the gamma function

In the paper http://rgmia.org/papers/v8n2/eepnt.pdf, the author proves that proves an explicit inequality on prime numbers using the gamma function and as a corollary, he showed that.

$$p_n = n \ln \frac{\Gamma'(n)}{\Gamma(n)} + O(n).$$

I obtained a stronger form of this result namely

$$p_n = n \ln \frac{\Gamma'(n)}{\Gamma(n-1)} + O\Big(\frac{n\ln\ln n}{\ln n}\Big).$$

The gamma function seems to beautifully approximate $p_n$. To get the same error term using the regular Cipolla's asymptotic expansion of the $p_n$ we would need three terms.

Can someone explain why the gamma function approximated the n-th prime so nicely? Is this a coincidence or is there some underlying phenomenon governing this result that can shed some new light distribution of prime numbers.