Squarefrees are Gaussian in short intervals

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Hauptverfasser: Gorodetsky, Ofir, Mangerel, Alexander P., Rodgers, Brad
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author Gorodetsky, Ofir
Mangerel, Alexander P.
Rodgers, Brad
author_facet Gorodetsky, Ofir
Mangerel, Alexander P.
Rodgers, Brad
contents We show that counts of squarefree integers up to $X$ in short intervals of size $H$ tend to a Gaussian distribution as long as $H\rightarrow\infty$ 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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spellingShingle Squarefrees are Gaussian in short intervals
Gorodetsky, Ofir
Mangerel, Alexander P.
Rodgers, Brad
Number Theory
Probability
We show that counts of squarefree integers up to $X$ in short intervals of size $H$ tend to a Gaussian distribution as long as $H\rightarrow\infty$ 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 $B$.
title Squarefrees are Gaussian in short intervals
topic Number Theory
Probability
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.12234