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On Nonzero Coefficients of Binary Cyclotomic Polynomials

Number Theory 2025-09-03 v2

Abstract

Let ϑ(m)\vartheta(m) is number of nonzero coefficients in the mm-th cyclotomic polynomial. For real γ>0\gamma > 0 and x2x \ge 2 we define Hγ(x)=#{m: m=pqx, p<q primes , ϑ(m)m1/2+γ},H_{\gamma}(x)=\#\left\{m:~m=pq \le x, \ p<q\text{ primes }, \ \vartheta(m)\le m^{1/2+\gamma}\right\}, and show that for any fixed η>0\eta> 0, uniformly over γ\gamma with 9/20+ηγ1/2η,9/20+\eta \le \gamma\le 1/2 -\eta, we have an asymptotic formula Hγ(x)C(γ)x1/2+γ/logx,x, H_{\gamma}(x)\sim C(\gamma)x^{1/2+\gamma}/ \log x, \qquad x \to \infty, where C(γ)>0C(\gamma)> 0 is an explicit constant depending only on γ\gamma. This extends the previous result of {\'E}.~Fouvry (2013), which has 12/2512/25 instead of 9/209/20.

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@article{arxiv.2307.07229,
  title  = {On Nonzero Coefficients of Binary Cyclotomic Polynomials},
  author = {Igor E. Shparlinski and Laurence P. Wijaya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.07229},
  year   = {2025}
}

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