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Extremal Values of

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

P. Codecà  and
M. Nair
P. Codecà
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Ferrara via Machiavelli 35 44100 Ferrara Italy, e-mail: cod@dns.unife.it
M. Nair
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QW UK, e-mail: mknn@maths.gla.ac.uk
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Abstract

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The function $\Delta (x,N)$ as defined in the title is closely associated via $\Delta \,(N)\,=\,{{\sup }_{x}}\,|\,\Delta (x,N)|$ to several problems in the upper bound sieve. It is also known via a classical theorem of Franel that certain conjectured bounds involving averages of $\Delta (x,N)$ are equivalent to the Riemann Hypothesis. We improve the unconditional bounds which have been hitherto obtained for $\Delta (N)$ and show that these are close to being optimal. Several auxiliary results relating $\Delta (Np)$ to $\Delta (N)$, where $p$ is a prime with $p\nmid N$, are also obtained and two new conjectures stated.

Keywords

11N25
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , 01 September 1998 , pp. 335 - 347
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1998

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