Small divisors of Bernoulli sums (Q2465618)

Let \(\varepsilon = (\varepsilon_{i})\) be a sequence of Bernoulli random variables such that \[ \text{prob}(\varepsilon_{i}= 0)= \text{prob}(\varepsilon_{i}=1)= \tfrac{1}{2} \] and let \(\mathbb P^{-}_{n}\) denote the smallest divisor of the partial sum \(\varepsilon_{1}+ \cdots + \varepsilon_{n}.\) The main result of the present paper is the estimate \[ \left| \text{prob} (P_{n}^{-}> \xi)- \frac{e^{-\gamma}}{\log \xi} \right| \leq \frac{\text{const}}{\log^{2}\xi} \] for \(\xi_{0} \leq \xi \leq n^{c/\log \log n}\) (\(n\) sufficiently large, \(c > 0\)), where \(\gamma\) denotes Euler's constant. The proof depends on delicate arguments from asymptotic analysis, in particular on uniform estimates involving theta functions. The investigations are a continuation of earlier work of the author.