The covariance of almost-primes in F_q[T]

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNU118MaRDI QIDQ3454248zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Brad Rodgers

Publication date 24 November 2015

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.4905

zbMATH Keywords

almost-primesarithmetic in function fieldsrandom matricesvon Mangoldt function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic theory of algebraic function fields (11R58) Arithmetic theory of polynomial rings over finite fields (11T55)

Abstract: We estimate the covariance in counts of almost-primes in $mathbb{F}_q[T]$, weighted by higher-order von Mangoldt functions. The answer takes a pleasant algebraic form. This generalizes recent work of Keating and Rudnick that estimates the variance of primes, and makes use, as theirs, of a recent equidistribution result of Katz. In an appendix we prove some related identities for random matrix statistics, which allows us to give a quick proof of a $2imes2$ ratio theorem for the characteristic polynomial of the unitary group. We additionally identify arithmetic functions whose statistics mimic those of hook Schur functions.

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