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On the normal concentration of divisors, 2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2009

HELMUT MAIER
Affiliation:
Universitát Ulm, Abt. Mathematik III, Helmholtzstrasse 18, D-89069 Ulm, Germany
GÉRALD TENENBAUM
Affiliation:
Institut Élie Cartan, Nancy-Université, CNRS, INRIA, Boulevard des Aiguillettes, BP 239, 54506 Vandœuvre Cedex, France

Abstract

We improve the current upper and lower bounds for the normal order of the Erdős–Hooley Δ–functionobtaining, for almost all integers n, the inequalitieswhere the exponent γ := (log 2)/log((1−1/log 27)/(1 − 1/log 3)) ≈ 0.33827 is conjectured to be optimal.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2009

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