Explicit bounds for large gaps between squarefree integers

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2023.07.003MaRDI QIDQ6048615zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Angel V. Kumchev, Wade McCormick, Nathan McNew, A. Park, Russell Scherr, Willow Ziehr

Publication date 11 October 2023

Published in Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09975

explicit bounds gaps squarefree integers

Distribution of primes (11N05) Distribution of integers with specified multiplicative constraints (11N25) Asymptotic results on arithmetic functions (11N37)

Abstract: We obtain explicit forms of the current best known asymptotic upper bounds for gaps between squarefree and cubefree integers. In particular we show, for any

x g e 2

, that every interval of the form

(x, x + 11 x^{1 / 5} l o g x]

contains a squarefree integer and every interval

(x, x + 5 x^{1 / 7} l o g x]

contains a cubefree integer. The constants 11 and 5 can also be improved if

x

is assumed to be larger than a very large constant.

Review text

The squarefree numbers form a positive proportion of all integers so we expect to find them in all intervals of a relative small length. The paper investigates the following question. Find a function \(y(x)\) such that for all \(x\ge 2\), the interval \([x,x+y(x)]\) contains a squarefree integer. The same question with squarefree replaced by cubefree. The authors show that \(y(x)=11 x^{1/5}\log x\) is an acceptable choice for squarefree integers. The coefficient \(11\) can be replaced by \(5,~2\) or \(1\) but only for \(x\ge x_0\), where \(x_0=e^{400},~e^{1800}\) and \(e^{500000}\), respectively. In the case of cubreefree integers, an acceptable choice for all \(x\ge 2\) is \(y(x)=5x^{1/7}\log x\). The most important ingredient of the proof is finding good upper bounds on the quantity \[ S(M,N)=\left\{u\in {\mathbb Z}: M<u\le N, \gcd(u,2)=1,~1-\frac{h}{u^2}\le \left\{\frac{x}{u^2}\right\}<1\right\} \] for suitable parameters \(h,~M,~N\) depending on \(x\).

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