The variance asymptotic conjecture for sums of two squares

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Let b(n)b(n) be the indicator of integers representable as sums of two squares. Let B(x)=nxb(n)B(x)=\sum_{n\leq x}b(n), let I(x;H)I(x;H) be the paper's smooth approximation to B(x+H)B(x)B(x+H)-B(x), and define

Vb(X;H):=1XX2X(B(x+H)B(x)I(x;H))2dx.V_b(X;H):=\frac{1}{X}\int_X^{2X}\big(B(x+H)-B(x)-I(x;H)\big)^2\,dx.

Let KK be the Landau–Ramanujan constant and let GG denote the function defined in the paper. The variance asymptotic conjecture. For fixed δ(0,1)\delta\in(0,1), as XX\to\infty with H=XδH=X^\delta,

Vb(X;H)=(KG(1δ)+o(1))HlogX.V_b(X;H)=\left(KG(1-\delta)+o(1)\right)\frac{H}{\sqrt{\log X}}.

The theorem motivating this conjecture establishes the corresponding function-field limiting structure, while the integer asymptotic remains open.

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Ofir Gorodetsky and Brad Rodgers, “The variance of the number of sums of two squares in F_q[T] in short intervals”, arXiv:1810.06002 (2020).

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