A lower bound on the mean value of the Erdős-Hooley Delta function

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Hauptverfasser: Ford, Kevin, Koukoulopoulos, Dimitris, Tao, Terence
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author Ford, Kevin
Koukoulopoulos, Dimitris
Tao, Terence
author_facet Ford, Kevin
Koukoulopoulos, Dimitris
Tao, Terence
contents We give an improved lower bound for the average of the Erdős-Hooley function $Δ(n)$, namely $\sum_{n\le x} Δ(n) \gg_\varepsilon x(\log\log x)^{1+η-\varepsilon}$ for all $x\geqslant100$ and any fixed $\varepsilon$, where $η= 0.3533227\dots$ is an exponent previously appearing in work of Green and the first two authors. This improves on a previous lower bound of $\gg x \log\log x$ of Hall and Tenenbaum, and can be compared to the recent upper bound of $x (\log\log x)^{11/4}$ of the second and third authors.
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spellingShingle A lower bound on the mean value of the Erdős-Hooley Delta function
Ford, Kevin
Koukoulopoulos, Dimitris
Tao, Terence
Number Theory
Primary: 11N25, Secondary: 11N37, 11N64
We give an improved lower bound for the average of the Erdős-Hooley function $Δ(n)$, namely $\sum_{n\le x} Δ(n) \gg_\varepsilon x(\log\log x)^{1+η-\varepsilon}$ for all $x\geqslant100$ and any fixed $\varepsilon$, where $η= 0.3533227\dots$ is an exponent previously appearing in work of Green and the first two authors. This improves on a previous lower bound of $\gg x \log\log x$ of Hall and Tenenbaum, and can be compared to the recent upper bound of $x (\log\log x)^{11/4}$ of the second and third authors.
title A lower bound on the mean value of the Erdős-Hooley Delta function
topic Number Theory
Primary: 11N25, Secondary: 11N37, 11N64
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.11987