It is a classic result of Selberg in the 1950's that $θ_2 = 2/3$, where $θ_2$ is the level of distribution of the divisor function in arithmetic progressions (defined more precisely below). Selberg applies this estimate, together with his $Λ^2$ sieve, to prove weak forms of the binary Goldbach and twin prime conjectures.
In this note, we give an unconditional proof of Selberg's first result with smooth weights for prime moduli, and put forth a hypothesis via subconvexity to bootstrap to level $4/5$. Contingent outcomes of our proposal is an improvement of Selberg's second result on approximations to twin primes and in lowering bounds on gaps between primes.
We give a new non-trivial upper bound for the Selberg integral of the three-divisor function $d_3(n)$. Our method applies our recent conjecture together with Laporta, for the modified Selberg integral of $d_3(n)$, and a kind of modified Gallagher Lemma for the exponential sums.
We prove a non-trivial result for the,say,modified Selberg integral $\modSel_3(N,h)$, of the divisor function $d_3(n):= \sum_{a}\sum_{b}\sum_{c, abc=n}1$; this integral is a slight modification of the corresponding Selberg integral, that gives the expected value of the function in short intervals. We get, in fact, $\modSel_3(N,h)\ll Nh^2L^2$, where $L:=\log N$; furthermore, as a byproduct, we obtain indications on the way in which it may be proved the weak sixth moment of the Riemann zeta function.(This was OLD abstract)
We deeply appreciate the papers of Ivić on the links between the $2k-$th moments of the Riemann zeta function and, say, $d_k$, the $k-$divisor function. More specifically, both the one bounding the $2k-$th moment with a simple average of correlations of the $d_k$ (Palanga 1996 Conference Proceedings) and the more recent (arXiv:0708.1601v2 to appear on JTNB), which bounds the Selberg integral of $d_k$ applying the $2k-$th moment of the zeta. Building on the former paper, we apply an elementary approach (based on arithmetic averages) in order to get information on the reverse link to the second …
In this note we prove that the Selberg zeta-function associated to a compact Riemann surface is pseudo-prime and right-prime in the sense of a decomposition.
In this note, we prove Selberg's announced result on $r$-gaps between zeros of the Riemann zeta-function $ζ$. Our proof uses a result on variations of $\argζ$ by Tsang based on Selberg's method. The same result with explicit constants under the Riemann Hypothesis has been obtained by Conrey and Turnage-Butterbaugh using a different method. We explain how to obtain explicit constants under the Riemann Hypothesis using our approach which is based on Selberg's and Tsang's arguments.
This paper deals with function field analogues of famous theorems of Laudau which counted the number of integers which have $t$ prime factors and R. Hall which researched the distribution of divisors of integers in residue classes.\;We extend the Selberg-Delange method to handle the following problems.\;The number of monic polynomials with degree $n$ have $t$ irreducible factors;\;The number of monic polynomials with degree $n$ in some residue classes have $t$ irreducible factors and the residue classes distribution of divisors of monic polynomial.\;
The present paper is a dissertation on the possible consequences of a conjectural bound for the so-called \thinspace modified Selberg integral of the divisor function $d_3$, i.e. a discrete version of the classical Selberg integral, where $d_3(n)=\sum_{abc=n}1$ is attached to the Cesaro weight $1-|n-x|/H$ in the short interval $|n-x|\le H$. Mainly, an immediate consequence is a non-trivial bound for the Selberg integral of $d_3$, improving recent results of Ivić based on the standard approach through the moments of the Riemann zeta function on the critical line. We proceed instead with element…
In this note we investigate the problem of determining elements of the Selberg class from their Dirichlet series coefficients at the primes. We show that this is possible when the degree is one, but in general need an additional weak hypothesis on the Dirichlet series coefficients at squares of primes.
Let $k\geq 2$ and $\mathcal{P} (n) = (A_1 n + B_1 ) \cdots (A_k n + B_k)$ where all the $A_i, B_i$ are integers. Suppose that $\mathcal{P} (n)$ has no fixed prime divisors. For each choice of $k$ it is known that there exists an integer $\varrho_k$ such that $\mathcal{P} (n)$ has at most $\varrho_k$ prime factors infinitely often. We used a new weighted sieve set-up combined with a device called an $\varepsilon$-trick to improve the possible values of $\varrho_k$ for $k\geq 7$. As a by-product of our approach, we improve the conditional possible values of $\varrho_k$ for $k\geq 4$, assuming th…
In this note we show that the methods of Motohashi and Meurman yield the same upper bound on the error term in the binary additive divisor problem. With this goal, we improve an estimate in the proof of Motohashi.
Selberg sums are the analogues over finite fields of certain integrals studied by Selberg in in 1940s. The original versions of these sums were introduced by R.J.Evans in 1981 and, following an elegant idea of G.W.Anderson in 1991 they were evaluated by Anderson, Evans and P.B.~van~Wamelen. In 2007 the author noted that these sums and certain generalizations of them appear in the study of the distribution of Gauss sums over a rational function field over a finite field. The distribution of Gauss sums is closely related to the distribution of the values of the discriminant of polynomials of a f…
We prove an upper bound for the exponential sum associated to a localized $k-$divisor function, i.e., the counting function of the number of ways to write a positive integer $n$ as a product of $k\ge 2$ positive integers, each of them belonging to a specified interval. In particular, this gives an estimate for the exponential sum for the $k-$divisor function, $d_k(n)$.
In a recent paper, Lapkova uses a Tauberian theorem to derive the asymptotic formula for the divisor sum $\sum_{n \leq x} d( n (n+v))$ where $v$ is a fixed integer and $d(n)$ denotes the number of divisors of $n$. We reprove her result by following a suggestion of Hooley, namely investigating the relationship between this sum and the well-known sum $\sum_{n \leq x} d( n ) d (n+v)$. As such, we are able to furnish additional terms in the asymptotic formula.
Let $τ$ denote the divisor function and $\mathcal{H}=\{h_{1},...,h_{k}\}$ be an admissible set. We prove that there are infinitely many $n$ for which the product $\prod_{i=1}^{k}(n+h_{i})$ is square-free and $\sum_{i=1}^{k}τ(n+h_{i})\leq \lfloor ρ_{k}\rfloor$, where $ρ_{k}$ is asymptotic to $\frac{2126}{2853} k^{2}$. It improves a previous result of M. Ram Murty and A. Vatwani, replacing $2126/2853$ by $3/4$. The main ingredients in our proof are the higher rank Selberg sieve and Irving-Wu-Xi estimate for the divisor function in arithmetic progressions to smooth moduli.
These are Notes prepared for nine lectures given at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, MSRI, Berkeley during the period January--March 1995. It is a pleasant duty to record here my gratitude to MSRI, and its staff, for making possible this 1994--95 Special Year in Automorphic Forms, and for providing such a setting for work. The purpose of these Notes is to describe the contents of Arthur's earlier, foundational papers on the trace formula. In keeping with the introductory nature of the lectures, we have sometimes illustrated the ideas of Arthur's general theory by applying them in …
These notes are based on my four lectures given at the Newton Institute in April 2004 during the Recent Perspectives in Random Matrix Theory and Number Theory Workshop. Their purpose is to introduce the reader to the analytic number theory necessary to understand Montgomery's work on the pair correlation of the zeros of the Riemann zeta-function and subsequent work on how this relates to prime numbers. A very brief introduction to Selberg's work on the moments of $S(T)$ is also given.
Let $F$ be a number field, $O_F$ the integral closure of $\mathbb{Z}$ in $F$ and $P(T) \in O_F[T]$ a monic separable polynomial such that $P(0) \not=0$ and $P(1) \not=0$. We give precise sufficient conditions on a given positive integer $k$ for the following condition to hold: there exist infinitely many non-zero prime ideals $\mathcal{P}$ of $O_F$ such that the reduction modulo $\mathcal{P}$ of $P(T)$ has a root in the residue field $O_F/\mathcal{P}$, but the reduction modulo $\mathcal{P}$ of $P(T^k)$ has no root in $O_F/\mathcal{P}$. This makes a result from a previous paper (motivated by a …
In 1982, Erdös and van Lint showed an estimate for the average of the ratio of the smallest and largest prime divisor of $n$. In this note, we apply C.H. Jia's method to give an estimate for the average of positive integer power of the ratio.
We extend the Matomäki-Radziwiłł theorem to a large collection of unbounded multiplicative functions that are uniformly bounded, but not necessarily bounded by 1, on the primes. Our result allows us to estimate averages of such a function $f$ in typical intervals of length $h(\log X)^c$, with $h = h(X) \rightarrow \infty$ and where $c = c_f \geq 0$ is determined by the distribution of $\{|f(p)|\}_p$ in an explicit way. We give three applications. First, we show that the classical Rankin-Selberg-type asymptotic formula for partial sums of $|λ_f(n)|^2$, where $\{λ_f(n)\}_n$ is the sequence of no…
In this paper, we define a variant of Fibonacci-like sequences that we call prime Fibonacci sequences, where one takes the sum of the previous two terms and returns the smallest odd prime divisor of that sum as the next term. We prove that these sequences always terminate in a power of two but can be extended infinitely to the left.
In this note we give two small results concerning the correlations of the Selberg sieve weights. We then use these estimates to derive a new (conditional) lower bound on the variance of the primes in short intervals, and also on the so-called `form factor' for the pair correlations of the zeros of the Riemann zeta function. Our bounds ultimately rely on the estimates of Bettin--Chandee for trilinear Kloosterman fractions.
We show that the $\ell$-adic Tate conjecture for divisors on smooth proper varieties over finitely generated fields of positive characteristic follows from the $\ell$-adic Tate conjecture for divisors on smooth projective surfaces over finite fields. Similar results for cycles of higher co-dimension are given.
Let $(b_n) = (b_1, b_2, ...)$ be a sequence of integers. A primitive prime divisor of a term $b_k$ is a prime which divides $b_k$ but does not divide any of the previous terms of the sequence. A zero orbit of a polynomial $f(z)$ is a sequence of integers $(c_n)$ where the $n$-th term is the $n$-th iterate of $f$ at 0. We consider primitive prime divisors of zero orbits of polynomials. In this note, we show that for integers $c$ and $d$, where $d > 1$ and $c \neq \pm 1$, every iterate in the zero orbit of $f(z) = z^d + c$ contains a primitive prime whenever zero has an infinite orbit. If $c = \…
