Concentration function of additive functions on shifted twin primes

DOI10.4064/AA-84-3-193-224MaRDI QIDQ4396696zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Simon Wong

Publication date 22 June 1998

Published in Acta Arithmetica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/207143

zbMATH Keywords

additive functionasymptotic estimatesBombieri-type theorems for multiplicative functionsBombieri-Vinogradov theoremSelberg's sieve methodshifted twin primes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic functions in probabilistic number theory (11K65) Primes in congruence classes (11N13) Applications of sieve methods (11N36) Asymptotic results on arithmetic functions (11N37)

Review text

The aim of this paper, which is part of the author's Ph.D. thesis, is to give upper estimates for the function \[ Q_h(x,\gamma)= {1\over\Psi_\gamma(x)}\cdot \#\{p\leq x, p\text{ and }(p+ \gamma)\text{ prime}, h<f(p+ a)\leq h+ 1\}, \] which gives the quotient of the number of twin primes \((p,p+\gamma)\) below \(x\), for which the additive function \(f\) has shifted values \(f(p+ a)\) between \(h\) and \(h+1\), and of \[ \Psi_\gamma(x)= 2\cdot \prod_{p> 2}\Biggl(1- {1\over(p- 1)^2}\Biggr)\cdot \prod_{\substack{ p|\gamma\\ p>2}} {p- 1\over p-2}\cdot{x\over \log^2x}, \] the conjectured approximation for the number \(\pi_\gamma(x)\) of twin primes \((p,p+ \gamma)\) below \(x\). The result is: For all additive functions \(f\), \[ Q_h(x, \gamma)\ll \prod_{p| a(\gamma-a)} \Biggl(1+{2\over p}\Biggr)\cdot {1\over\sqrt{1+ W(x)}}, \] uniformly in \(h\), \(x\), \(\gamma\), where \(W(x)= \min_{\lambda\in\mathbb{R}}\left(\lambda^2+ \sum_{p\leq x}{1\over p}\cdot\min(1,| f(p)- \lambda\log p|^2)\right)\). The second result averages over \(\gamma\): \[ \Biggl(\sum_{\gamma\leq x} \pi_\gamma(x)\Biggr)^{-1}\cdot \sum_{\gamma\leq x}\Psi_\gamma(x)\cdot \sup_h Q_h(x,\gamma)\ll {1\over\sqrt{1+ W(x)}}. \] For the proof, Selberg's sieve method, results of \textit{P. D. T. A. Elliott} [J. Number Theory 44, 178-208 (1993; Zbl 0780.11042) and Acta Math. 173, 1-35 (1994; Zbl 0824.11057)], and estimates of sums over multiplicative functions (including Bombieri-type estimates) are used.

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