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The Differences Between Consecutive Smooth Numbers

Number Theory 2018-08-10 v1

Abstract

We show that large gaps between smooth numbers are infrequent. The key new tool is a novel mean value bound for a special type of Dirichlet polynomial.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1808.02947,
  title  = {The Differences Between Consecutive Smooth Numbers},
  author = {D R Heath-Brown},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.02947},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

To appear in Acta Arithmetica