Weak Granville conjecture for smooth shifted primes in a quadratic setting

For X,YX,Y\to\infty with XYX\geq Y, define

U=logXlogYU=\frac{\log X}{\log Y}

and let

Π(X,Y)=#{pX:P(p(Δ/p))Y},\Pi^{*}(X,Y)=\#\{p\leq X:P(p-(\Delta/p))\leq Y\},

where (Δ/p)(\Delta/p) is the Legendre symbol and Ψ(X,Y)\Psi(X,Y) counts the YY-smooth integers at most XX. Weak Granville conjecture. If

U=exp((1+o(1))logX),U=\exp((1+o(1))\sqrt{\log X}),

then

Π(X,Y)Ψ(X,Y)logX.\Pi^{*}(X,Y)\gg\frac{\Psi(X,Y)}{\log X}.

A fixed-UU instance follows under the weak Elliott–Halberstam conjecture, while the larger range asserted here is used for the paper's conditional lower bound and is not proved.

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Primary source

Abhishek Jha, Ayan Nath and Emanuele Tron, “The moments of split greatest common divisors”, arXiv:2408.05820 (2026).

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