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An almost sharp quantitative version of the Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture

Number Theory 2024-09-23 v2

Abstract

We prove a quantitative version of the Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture with an almost sharp error term. Precisely, let ψ:N[0,1/2]\psi:\mathbb{N}\to[0,1/2] be a function such that the series q=1φ(q)ψ(q)/q\sum_{q=1}^\infty \varphi(q)\psi(q)/q diverges. In addition, given αR\alpha\in\mathbb{R} and Q1Q\geqslant1, let N(α;Q)N(\alpha;Q) be the number of coprime pairs (a,q)Z×N(a,q)\in\mathbb{Z}\times\mathbb{N} with qQq\leqslant Q and αa/q<ψ(q)/q|\alpha-a/q|<\psi(q)/q. Lastly, let Ψ(Q)=qQ2φ(q)ψ(q)/q\Psi(Q)=\sum_{q\leqslant Q}2\varphi(q)\psi(q)/q, which is the expected value of N(α;Q)N(\alpha;Q) when α\alpha is uniformly chosen from [0,1][0, 1]. We prove that N(α;Q)=Ψ(Q)+Oα,ε(Ψ(Q)1/2+ε)N(\alpha;Q)=\Psi(Q)+O_{\alpha,\varepsilon}(\Psi(Q)^{1/2+\varepsilon}) for almost all α\alpha (in the Lebesgue sense) and for every fixed ε>0\varepsilon>0. This improves upon results of Koukoulopoulos-Maynard and of Aistleitner-Borda-Hauke.

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@article{arxiv.2404.14628,
  title  = {An almost sharp quantitative version of the Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture},
  author = {Dimitris Koukoulopoulos and James Maynard and Daodao Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.14628},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

41 pages. Final version. To appear in Duke Math. J. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1907.04593

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