Quantitative Erdős–Kac conjecture for Beatty sequences

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Let α>0\alpha>0 and β∈R\beta\in\mathbb{R}. For n∼U[N]n\sim U[N], let dKd_K denote the Kolmogorov distance, and define

XN=ω(⌊αn+β⌋)−log⁡log⁡Nlog⁡log⁡N.X_N=\frac{\omega(\lfloor\alpha n+\beta\rfloor)-\log\log N}{\sqrt{\log\log N}}.

Quantitative Erdős–Kac conjecture for Beatty sequences. The distance between XNX_N and the standard Gaussian N(0,1)\mathcal{N}(0,1) is bounded above by

Oα,β(1log⁡log⁡N)O_{\alpha,\beta}\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{\log\log N}}\right)

as N→∞N\rightarrow\infty, with the implied constant allowed to depend on α\alpha and β\beta.

The paper proves the weaker bound Oα,β(log⁡log⁡log⁡N/log⁡log⁡N)O_{\alpha,\beta}(\log\log\log N/\sqrt{\log\log N}) using probabilistic methods. The conjectured estimate is the optimal order suggested by the lattice spacing of the normalized random variable, but no proof is given.

References

Primary source

Fredy Yip, “Multivariate and quantitative Erdős-Kac laws for Beatty sequences”, arXiv:2602.04875 (2026).

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