The cancellation conjecture for Ramanujan-sum correlations

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Let ff be an approximation function, let θ\theta be an inhomogeneous shift, and let ϕ\phi and dd denote Euler's totient and divisor-counting functions, respectively. Let W(f,θ)W(f,\theta) be the corresponding inhomogeneous well-approximable set. The cancellation conjecture.

lim sup⁡N→∞∑n=1Nϕ(n)f(n)/n∑n=1Nf(n)d(n)=∞  ⟹  W(f,θ) has full Lebesgue measure.\limsup_{N\to\infty}\frac{\sum_{n=1}^N\phi(n)f(n)/n}{\sqrt{\sum_{n=1}^N f(n)d(n)}}=\infty\implies W(f,\theta)\text{ has full Lebesgue measure.}

The proposed conclusion would follow from the conjectured cancellation estimate discussed immediately before it, and would improve one theorem while remaining weaker than a question posed earlier in the paper. The source gives no resolution.

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Han Yu, “A Fourier analytic approach to inhomogeneous Diophantine approximation”, arXiv:1704.04691 (2018).

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