Conjecture on the moments of greatest common divisors of Gaussian ideals

Let n\mathfrak{n} and m\mathfrak{m} be nonzero ideals chosen independently and uniformly at random from the set of ideals in Z[i]\mathbb{Z}[i] with norm at most xx. Write Ex{N(n,m)n}E_x\{N(\mathfrak{n},\mathfrak{m})^n\} for the nnth moment of the norm of their greatest common divisor, and let ζQ(i)\zeta_{\mathbb{Q}(i)} denote the Dedekind zeta function of Q(i)\mathbb{Q}(i). The moment conjecture. For n2n\geq 2,

Ex{N(n,m)n}4π(n+1){2ζQ(i)(n)ζQ(i)(n+1)1}xn1.E_x\{N(\mathfrak{n},\mathfrak{m})^n\}\sim \frac{4}{\pi(n+1)}\left\{\frac{2\zeta_{\mathbb{Q}(i)}(n)}{\zeta_{\mathbb{Q}(i)}(n+1)}-1\right\}x^{n-1}.

The preceding theorem establishes the order of growth for n>2n>2 with an unspecified constant, while numerical data in the paper provide evidence for this explicit constant for all n2n\geq 2.

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Tai-Danae Bradley, Yin Choi Cheng and Yan Fei Luo, “On the Distribution of the Greatest Common Divisor of Gaussian Integers”, arXiv:1502.02148 (2015).

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