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Level of distribution of unbalanced convolutions

Number Theory 2018-11-22 v1

Abstract

We show that if an essentially arbitrary sequence supported on an interval containing xx integers, is convolved with a tiny Siegel-Walfisz-type sequence supported on an interval containing exp((logx)ε)\exp((\log x)^{\varepsilon}) integers then the resulting multiplicative convolution has (in a weak sense) level of distribution x1/2+1/66εx^{1/2 + 1/66 - \varepsilon} as xx goes to infinity. This dispersion estimate has a number of consequences for: the distribution of the kkth divisor function to moduli x1/2+1/66εx^{1/2 + 1/66 - \varepsilon} for any integer k1k \geq 1, the distribution of products of exactly two primes in arithmetic progressions to large moduli, the distribution of sieve weights of level x1/2+1/66εx^{1/2 + 1/66 - \varepsilon} to moduli as large as x1εx^{1 - \varepsilon} and for the Brun-Titchmarsh theorem for almost all moduli qq of size x1εx^{1 - \varepsilon}, lowering the long-standing constant 44 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 11-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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