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What is the intuition behind applying the Mellin Transform to prime distribution?

I am an undergraduate student writing an expository thesis on the complex-analytic proof of the Prime Number Theorem. I understand that applying the Mellin Transform to the partial sum of the van ...
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Montgomery's conjecture and lower bound on certain Fourier transform.

Recently I have come across the following question, while meditating about Matt Young's answer to this question of mine, explaining the heuristic (or at least, one possible heuristic) behind ...
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