Squarefrees are Gaussian in short intervals

DOI10.1515/CRELLE-2022-0066MaRDI QIDQ6386493arXivFDO

Authors Ofir Gorodetsky, Alexander P. Mangerel, Brad Rodgers

Publication date 22 December 2021

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1515/CRELLE-2022-0066

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Distribution of integers with specified multiplicative constraints (11N25) Asymptotic results on arithmetic functions (11N37) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Fractional processes, including fractional Brownian motion (60G22)

arXiv classification

math.NTmath.PR

Abstract: We show that counts of squarefree integers up to $X$ in short intervals of size $H$ tend to a Gaussian distribution as long as $Hightarrowinfty$ and $H=X^{o(1)}$. This answers a question posed by R.R. Hall in 1989. More generally we prove a variant of Donsker's theorem, showing that these counts scale to a fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter $1/4$. In fact we are able to prove these results hold in general for collections of $B$-free integers as long as the sieving set $B$ satisfies a very mild regularity property, for Hurst parameter varying with the set $B$.

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