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Beurling considered a sequence of reals $1<x_1<x_2<\cdots <$ as "primes" and then the ordered sequence of all products of these "primes" as "integers". Let us consider Beurling primes which are small perturbations of the ordinary primes. My question is:

1) How small perturbation guarantees that the Beurling primes/integers satisfy the prime number theorem.

2) How small perturbation guarantees that the system of Beurling primes/integers satisfies the RH given the "ordinary" RH.

3) How small perturbation guarantees that the the system of Beurling primes/integers satisfies Cramér's conjecture ("the number of integers between the $n$th prime ($p_n$) and the $n+1$ prime is $O(\log^2 p_n)$) given the "ordonary Cramér's conjecture".

Remark: I left the notion "small perturbation" vague and there is some other vagueness in the questions. But I will be interested in answers for any variant. Other basic results/conjectures can also be considered, and I will be interested also in information about them.

Motivation: This is motivated by some questions raised during the discussion of polymath 4 that I recalled in the context of the recent question The enigmatic complexity of number theory .

Clarification: (In response to Lucia.) I am looking for results of the following kind. (1) If $x_n=p_n+f(n)$ then the Beurling system based on $x_n$ satisfies the PNT. (2) If $x_n=p_n+g(n)$ then assuming RH, the Beurling system based on $x_n$ satisfies the assertion of the RH. (3)If $x_n=p_n+h(n)$ then assuming Cramér's conjecture, the Beurling system based on $x_n$ satisfies the assertion of Cramér conjecture.

Gil Kalai
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    Hi Gil, I don't really know what you're after, but have you looked at this paper of Diamond, Vorhauer and Montgomery already? https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00208-005-0638-2 – Lucia Oct 10 '17 at 04:20
  • Dear Lucia, thanks, references and brief simple nontechnical description of results of this kind is what I am mainly after. I suppose Beurling's original paper can be seen and turned into an answer for 1) (maybe there are better results) and the paper you mentioned is close in spirit to 2). – Gil Kalai Oct 10 '17 at 07:24
  • @Lucia , I added further clarification. – Gil Kalai Oct 13 '17 at 12:17

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