The Conrey–Gonek–Ivić additive divisor sum conjecture

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Let dk(n)d_k(n) denote the kk-fold divisor function, and define the additive divisor correlation Dh,k,l(x)D_{h,k,l}(x) as in the paper. For fixed k,lNk,l\in\mathbb{N} and h=O(x1ϵ)h=O(x^{1-\epsilon}) for every fixed ϵ>0\epsilon>0, there should exist a number δ>0\delta>0 and a polynomial Ph,k,lP_{h,k,l} of degree k+l2k+l-2 such that

Dh,k,l(x)=xPh,k,l(logx)+Oϵ,k,l(x1δ).D_{h,k,l}(x)=xP_{h,k,l}(\log x)+O_{\epsilon,k,l}(x^{1-\delta}).

Moreover, with h=pγh=\prod p^{\gamma}, the leading term is conjectured to satisfy

Dh,k,l(x)xlogk+l2xCk,lfk,l(h)(k1)!(l1)!\frac{D_{h,k,l}(x)}{x\log^{k+l-2}x}\sim\frac{C_{k,l}f_{k,l}(h)}{(k-1)!(l-1)!}

as xx\to\infty, where

Ck,l=p((1p1)l1+(1p1)k1(1p1)k+l2)C_{k,l}=\prod_p\left(\left(1-p^{-1}\right)^{l-1}+\left(1-p^{-1}\right)^{k-1}-\left(1-p^{-1}\right)^{k+l-2}\right)

and

fk,l(h)=ph(1p1)α=0γdl1(pα)β=αdk(pβ)pβ+dk(pγ)α=γ+1dl1(pα)pα(1p1)1k+(1p1)1l1.f_{k,l}(h)=\prod_{p\mid h}\frac{(1-p^{-1})\sum_{\alpha=0}^{\gamma}d_{l-1}(p^{\alpha})\sum_{\beta=\alpha}^{\infty}d_k(p^{\beta})p^{-\beta}+d_k(p^{\gamma})\sum_{\alpha=\gamma+1}^{\infty}d_{l-1}(p^{\alpha})p^{-\alpha}}{(1-p^{-1})^{1-k}+(1-p^{-1})^{1-l}-1}.

This is the central conjecture on additive divisor correlations, extending the known asymptotic results for cases such as l=2l=2 to the difficult range k,l3k,l\geq 3.

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Primary source

Kevin Smith and Julio Andrade, “On Additive Divisor Sums and minorants of divisor functions”, arXiv:1903.01566 (2022).

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