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An average number of square-free values of polynomials

Number Theory 2024-09-18 v3

Abstract

The well-known result states that the square-free counting function up to NN is N/ζ(2)+O(N1/2)N/\zeta(2)+O(N^{1/2}). This corresponds to the identity polynomial Id(x)\text{Id}(x). It is expected that the error term in question is Oε(N14+ε)O_\varepsilon(N^{\frac{1}{4}+\varepsilon}) for arbitrarily small ε>0\varepsilon>0. Usually, it is more difficult to obtain a similar order of error term for a higher degree polynomial f(x)f(x) in place of Id(x)\text{Id}(x). Under the Riemann hypothesis, we show that the error term, on average in a weak sense, over polynomials of arbitrary degree, is of the expected order Oε(N14+ε)O_\varepsilon(N^{\frac{1}{4}+\varepsilon}).

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@article{arxiv.2405.06969,
  title  = {An average number of square-free values of polynomials},
  author = {Watcharakiete Wongcharoenbhorn and Yotsanan Meemark},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.06969},
  year   = {2024}
}

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