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ROUGH INTEGERS WITH A DIVISOR IN A GIVEN INTERVAL

Part of: Multiplicative number theory Nonparametric inference

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2020

KEVIN FORD
KEVIN FORD*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, 1409 West Green Street, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA e-mail: ford126@illinois.edu
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Abstract

We determine, up to multiplicative constants, the number of integers $n\leq x$ that have a divisor in $(y,2y]$ and no prime factor $\leq w$. Our estimate is uniform in $x,y,w$. We apply this to determine the order of the number of distinct integers in the $N\times N$ multiplication table, which are free of prime factors $\leq w$, and the number of distinct fractions of the form $(a_{1}a_{2})/(b_{1}b_{2})$ with $1\leq a_{1}\leq b_{1}\leq N$ and $1\leq a_{2}\leq b_{2}\leq N$.

Keywords

divisorsFarey fractions

MSC classification

Primary: 11N25: Distribution of integers with specified multiplicative constraints
Secondary: 62G30: Order statistics; empirical distribution functions

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Research Article
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Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 111 , Issue 1 , August 2021 , pp. 17 - 36
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© 2020 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.

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Footnotes

Communicated by I. Shparlinski

Research supported by National Science Foundation grant DMS-1802139.

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