Additive divisor conjecture with a power-saving error term

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Let k,ℓ>1k,\ell>1 be natural numbers, let xx be large, and let hh satisfy 1≤h≤x1−ε1\le h\le x^{1-\varepsilon}. Let Dk,ℓ(x,h)=∑n≤xτk(n)τℓ(n+h)D_{k,\ell}(x,h)=\sum_{n\le x}\tau_k(n)\tau_\ell(n+h), and let qk,ℓ(t,h)q_{k,\ell}(t,h), Ek,ℓ(x,h)E_{k,\ell}(x,h), Ck,ℓC_{k,\ell}, and fk,ℓ(h)f_{k,\ell}(h) be the quantities defined in the source. Additive divisor conjecture. There exists a positive constant ϑk,ℓ∈[12,1)\vartheta_{k,\ell}\in[\tfrac12,1) such that

Dk,ℓ(x,h)=∫0xqk,ℓ(t,h) dt+Ek,ℓ(x,h),D_{k,\ell}(x,h)=\int_0^x q_{k,\ell}(t,h)\,dt+E_{k,\ell}(x,h),

and, for every ε>0\varepsilon>0,

Ek,ℓ(x,h)≪xϑk,ℓ+εE_{k,\ell}(x,h)\ll x^{\vartheta_{k,\ell}+\varepsilon}

uniformly for 1≤h≤x1−ε1\le h\le x^{1-\varepsilon}. Moreover, the coefficient of log⁡(t)log⁡(t+h)\log(t)\log(t+h) in qk,ℓ(t,h)q_{k,\ell}(t,h) is Dk,ℓ(0,0)=Ck,ℓfk,ℓ(h)\mathcal{D}_{k,\ell}(0,0)=C_{k,\ell}f_{k,\ell}(h). This conjecture gives a refined asymptotic framework for shifted divisor correlations, including an explicit local leading coefficient and a conjectural error exponent; the source does not resolve the conjectured bound.

References

Primary source

Nathan Ng and Mark Thom, “Bounds and Conjectures for additive divisor sums”, arXiv:1609.01411 (2017).

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