Euler-Kronecker constants for cyclotomic fields

Abstract: The Euler-Mascheroni constant

g a m m a = 0.5772 d o t s!

is the

K = m a t h b b Q

example of an Euler-Kronecker constant

g a m m a_{K}

of a number field

K .

In this note we consider the size of the

g a m m a_{q} = g a m m a_{K_{q}}

for cyclotomic fields

K_{q} := m a t h b b Q (z e t a_{q}) .

Assuming the Elliott-Halberstam Conjecture (EH), we prove uniformly in

Q

that

frac{1}{Q}sum_{Q<qle 2Q} left |gamma_q - log q ight |= o(log Q).

In other words, under EH the

g a m m a_{q} / l o g q

in these ranges converge to the one point distribution at

1

. This theorem refines and extends a previous result of Ford, Luca, and Moree for prime

q .

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