On the distribution of the divisor function and Hecke eigenvalues

DOI10.1007/S11856-016-1290-0MaRDI QIDQ2630876zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. J. Lester, Nadav Yesha

Publication date 22 July 2016

Published in Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.1579

zbMATH Keywords

arithmetic progressiondivisor functionHecke eigenvalue

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic progressions (11B25) Forms of half-integer weight; nonholomorphic modular forms (11F37) Asymptotic results on arithmetic functions (11N37)

Abstract: We investigate the behavior of the divisor function in both short intervals and in arithmetic progressions. The latter problem was recently studied by 'E. Fouvry, S. Ganguly, E. Kowalski, and Ph. Michel. We prove a complementary result to their main theorem. We also show that in short intervals of certain lengths the divisor function has a Gaussian limiting distribution. The analogous problems for Hecke eigenvalues are also considered.

Review text

As usual we denote the number of positive divisors of \(n\) by \(d(n)\). For a prime \(p\) let \[ \mathcal{S}_d(X,p,a)=\sum_{\overset{1\leq n\leq X}{ n\equiv a\pmod{p}}}d(n), \] and \[ \mathcal{M}_d(X,p)=\frac{1}{p}\sum_{1\leq n\leq X}d(n)-\frac{X}{p^2}\left(\log X+(2\gamma-1)-2\log p\right). \] Also, let \[ E_d(X,p,a)=\frac{\mathcal{S}_d(X,p,a)-\mathcal{M}_d(X,p)}{\sqrt{2\pi^{-2}(X/p)\log^3(p^2/X+2)}}. \] Assume that \(X=p^2/\Phi(p)\), where \(\Phi(p)\geq 1\) is a function that tends to infinity with \(p\) in a way such that \(\log\Phi(p)=o(\log p)\). In the paper under review, the authors prove that as \(p\to\infty\) one has \[ \frac{1}{p-1}\#\left\{a\in\mathbb{F}_p^\times:\alpha\leq E_d(X,p,a)\leq\beta\right\}=\frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}}\int_\alpha^\beta e^{-x^2/2}dx+o(1). \] The analogous result for Hecke eigenvalues is also obtained.

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