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Effective Khovanskii, Ehrhart Polytopes, and the Erd\H{o}s Multiplication Table Problem

Combinatorics 2025-04-01 v1

Abstract

Let P(k,n)P(k,n) be the set of products of kk factors from the set {1,,n}.\{1,\ldots , n\}. In 1955, Erd\H{o}s posed the problem of determining the order of magnitude of P(2,n)|P (2, n)| and proved that P(2,n)=o(n2)|P (2, n)| = o(n^2 ) for nn \to\infty. In 2015, Darda and Hujdurovi\'c asked whether, for each fixed nn, P(k,n)|P (k, n)| is a polynomial in kk of degree π(n)\pi(n) - the number of primes not larger than nn. Recently, Granville, Smith and Walker published an effective version of Khovanskii's Theorem. We apply this new result to show, that for each integer nn, there is a polynomial qnq_n of degree π(n)\pi(n) such that P(k,n)=qn(k)|P (k, n)|=q_n(k) for each kn2(m=1π(n)logpm(n))n+1.k\geq n^2\cdot\left(\prod_{m=1}^{\pi(n)} \log_{p_m}(n)\right)-n+1. Moreover, we give an upper estimate of the leading coefficient of qnq_n.

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@article{arxiv.2503.23578,
  title  = {Effective Khovanskii, Ehrhart Polytopes, and the Erd\H{o}s Multiplication Table Problem},
  author = {Anna Margarethe Limbach and Robert Scheidweiler and Eberhard Triesch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.23578},
  year   = {2025}
}
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