Level of distribution of unbalanced convolutions
Abstract
We show that if an essentially arbitrary sequence supported on an interval containing integers, is convolved with a tiny Siegel-Walfisz-type sequence supported on an interval containing integers then the resulting multiplicative convolution has (in a weak sense) level of distribution as goes to infinity. This dispersion estimate has a number of consequences for: the distribution of the th divisor function to moduli for any integer , the distribution of products of exactly two primes in arithmetic progressions to large moduli, the distribution of sieve weights of level to moduli as large as and for the Brun-Titchmarsh theorem for almost all moduli of size , lowering the long-standing constant in that range. Our result improves and is inspired by earlier work of Green (and subsequent work of Granville-Shao) which is concerned with the distribution of -bounded multiplicative functions in arithmetic progressions to large moduli. As in these previous works the main technical ingredient are the recent estimates of Bettin-Chandee for trilinear forms in Kloosterman fractions and the estimates of Duke-Friedlander-Iwaniec for bilinear forms in Kloosterman fractions.
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@article{arxiv.1811.08672,
title = {Level of distribution of unbalanced convolutions},
author = {Étienne Fouvry and Maksym Radziwiłł},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.08672},
year = {2018}
}
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36 pages