Correlations of the von Mangoldt and higher divisor functions. I. Long shift ranges

DOI10.1112/PLMS.12181MaRDI QIDQ4628461zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Kaisa Matomäki, Maksym Radziwiłł, Terence Tao

Publication date 13 March 2019

Published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.01315

zbMATH Keywords

correlationGoldbach conjecturehigher divisor functiondivisor correlation conjectureHardy-Littlewood prime tuples conjecturehigher order Titchmarsh divisor problemvon Mongoldt function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic results on arithmetic functions (11N37) Applications of sieve methods (11N36)

Abstract: We show that the expected asymptotic for the sums $su{m}_{X<nleq2X}Lambda(n)Lambda(n+h)$, $su{m}_{X<nleq2X}{d}_k(n)d_l(n+h)$, and $su{m}_{X<nleq2X}Lambda(n)d_k(n+h)$ hold for almost all $hin[-H,H]$, provided that $X^{8/33+varepsilon}leqHleq{X}^{1-varepsilon}$, with an error term saving on average an arbitrary power of the logarithm over the trivial bound. Previous work of Mikawa, Perelli-Pintz and Baier-Browning-Marasingha-Zhao covered the range $Hgeq{X}^{1/3+varepsilon}$. We also obtain an analogous result for $su{m}_{n}Lambda(n)Lambda(N-n)$. Our proof uses the circle method and some oscillatory integral estimates (following a paper of Zhan) to reduce matters to establishing some mean-value estimates for certain Dirichlet polynomials associated to "Type $d_3$" and "Type $d_4$" sums (as well as some other sums that are easier to treat). After applying H"older's inequality to the Type $d_3$ sum, one is left with two expressions, one of which we can control using a short interval mean value theorem of Jutila, and the other we can control using exponential sum estimates of Robert and Sargos. The Type $d_4$ sum is treated similarly using the classical $L^2$ mean value theorem and the classical van der Corput exponential sum estimates.

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