New small gaps between squarefree numbers

Publication date: 19 October 2021

Abstract: In this paper, we show that, for some constant

C > 0

, the interval

(x, x + C x^{5 / 26}]

always contains a squarefree number when

x

is sufficiently large (in terms of

C

). Our improvement comes from establishing asymptotic relations between the shifts

a

and

b

when

m n^{2} a p p r o x (m - a) (n + b)^{2}

We apply them to study quadruples

(m + a_{1}) (n - b_{1})^{2} a p p r o x m n^{2} a p p r o x (m - a_{2}) (n + b_{2})^{2} a p p r o x (m - a_{2} - a_{3}) (n + b_{2} + b_{3})^{2}

and generalize Roth differencing and Filaseta-Trifonov differencing by allowing

b_{1}

to be different from

b_{3}

. We also introduce a new differencing and exploit the interplay among these three differencings.

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