Equidistribution conjecture for fractional parts of factorial roots

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For a positive integer AA, let

S={a!k mod 1:2≤a≤A, 2≤k≤5log⁡log⁡A},S=\left\{\sqrt[k]{a!}\bmod 1:2\leq a\leq A,\ 2\leq k\leq5\log\log A\right\},

where the set is counted as a multiset when cardinalities are computed. Equidistribution conjecture. For any interval I⊂[0,1]I\subset[0,1],

∣S∩I∣=∣S∣ ∣I∣+O(∣S∣1−ϵ)|S\cap I|=|S|\,|I|+O\left(|S|^{1-\epsilon}\right)

for some positive ϵ>0\epsilon>0 as A→∞A\to\infty. Such an estimate would provide the equidistribution needed to prove that the set of integers aa participating in solutions to a!b!=c!a!b!=c! has asymptotic density zero. The conjecture is not resolved in the source.

References

Primary source

Joshua Cooper and Joseph Preuss, “On the sparsity of integers a in solutions to a!b!=c!”, arXiv:2512.03188 (2025).

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