On the largest square divisor of shifted primes

DOI10.4064/AA190725-16-1MaRDI QIDQ5854693zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jori Merikoski

Publication date 17 March 2021

Published in Acta Arithmetica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.02246

zbMATH Keywords

dispersion methodprime numberssieve methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Primes in congruence classes (11N13) Applications of sieve methods (11N36)

Abstract: We show that there are infinitely many primes $p$ such that $p-1$ is divisible by a square $d^{2}geq{p}^{h}eta$ for $heta=1/2+1/2000.$ This improves the work of Matom"aki (2009) who obtained the result for $heta=1/2-varepsilon$ (with the added constraint that $d$ is also a prime), which improved the result of Baier and Zhao (2006) with $heta=4/9-varepsilon.$ Similarly as in the work of Matom"aki, we apply Harman's sieve method to detect primes $pequiv1,(d^2)$. To break the $heta=1/2$ barrier we prove a new bilinear equidistribution estimate modulo smooth square moduli $d^2$ by using a similar argument as Zhang (2014) used to obtain equidistribution beyond the Bombieri-Vinogradov range for primes with respect to smooth moduli. To optimize the argument we incorporate technical refinements from the Polymath project (2014). Since the moduli are squares, the method produces complete exponential sums modulo squares of primes which are estimated using the results of Cochrane and Zheng (2000).

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