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Mar 12, 2014 at 8:21 comment added ACL @DavidSpeyer. Indeed. What one needs for the natural density is the absence of zero on the real line $\mathop{\rm Re}(s)=1$. The tauberian theorem of Ikehara shows that this condition is also sufficient. Newman's tauberian theorem is a bit weaker and requires some zero-free region; however, the standard (Hadamard) proof of non-vanishing implies the required estimate. For a more precise asymptotic expansion, larger zero-free regions are needed, with upper-bounds at infinity. The notion of analytic density is weaker and for that, one only needs to understand the pole at $s=1$.
Mar 12, 2014 at 2:53 comment added Igor Rivin @DavidSpeyer yes, I came to the same conclusion, but maybe ACL means that under some conditions (Euler product?) one gets nonvanishing on the line for free. A little hard to believe, but what do I know...
Mar 12, 2014 at 2:42 comment added David E Speyer @ACL Your notes show that you do need more analytic information. Propositions 1.4.7 and 1.4.8 are additional analytic information that is not needed in the Dirichlet density proof; for Dirichlet density you only need to prove these in a neighborhood of $s=1$.
Mar 6, 2014 at 13:28 comment added Igor Rivin @ACL Thanks! One lives and learns...
Mar 6, 2014 at 12:59 comment added ACL I say exactly that. I wrote the details in a mid-graduate course on number theory (4th year univ. in France). See the text on math.u-psud.fr/~chambert/enseignement/2007-08/h4/coursh4.pdf
Mar 6, 2014 at 12:50 comment added Igor Rivin @ACL So are you saying (for example) that to get from Dirichlet's theorem on primes in progressions to a natural density statement you just need a Tauberian argument? I thought (just as Speyer does, apparently) that you needed more analytic information on the $L$-functions involved.
Mar 6, 2014 at 2:12 answer added David E Speyer timeline score: 8
Mar 6, 2014 at 1:41 comment added ACL @IgorRivin: To pass from Dirichlet density to natural density, you just need powerful enough tauberian theorems. I would bet that Newman's "easy tauberian theorem" (see Zagier's AMM paper) is enough for Frobenius.
Mar 6, 2014 at 0:26 history edited Igor Rivin CC BY-SA 3.0
there seems to be a subtlety about what the FDT actually is...
Jul 8, 2013 at 0:28 vote accept Igor Rivin
Jul 7, 2013 at 19:40 comment added user9072 I just changed the link, since it pointed neither to the question nor the answer you mention, but to an other answer.
Jul 7, 2013 at 19:37 history edited user9072 CC BY-SA 3.0
changed link to point to Zieve's answer instead of Rivin's answer
Jul 7, 2013 at 19:31 answer added abz timeline score: 16
Jul 7, 2013 at 18:29 history asked Igor Rivin CC BY-SA 3.0