Beurling integers with RH and large oscillation

Abstract

We construct a Beurling generalized number system satisfying the Riemann hypothesis and whose integer counting function displays extremal oscillation in the following sense. The prime counting function of this number system satisfies $\pi(x)= \operatorname*{Li} (x)+ O(\sqrt{x})$, while its integer counting function satisfies the oscillation estimate $N(x) = \rho x + \Omega_{\pm}\bigl(x\exp(-c\sqrt{\log x\log\log x})\bigr)$ for some $c>0$, where $\rho>0$ is its asymptotic density. The construction is inspired by a classical example of H. Bohr for optimality of the convexity bound for Dirichlet series, and combines saddle-point analysis with the Diamond-Montgomery-Vorhauer probabilistic method via random prime number system approximations.