Quantitative Erdős–Kac conjecture for Beatty sequences

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

XN=ω(αn+β)loglogNloglogN.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(1loglogN)O_{\alpha,\beta}\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{\log\log N}}\right)

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

The paper proves the weaker bound Oα,β(logloglogN/loglogN)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.

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Primary source

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

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