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A NOTE ON POWERFUL NUMBERS IN SHORT INTERVALS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2022
Abstract
We investigate uniform upper bounds for the number of powerful numbers in short intervals $(x, x + y]$. We obtain unconditional upper bounds $O({y}/{\log y})$ and $O(\kern1.3pt y^{11/12})$ for all powerful numbers and $y^{1/2}$-smooth powerful numbers, respectively. Conditional on the $abc$-conjecture, we prove the bound $O({y}/{\log ^{1+\epsilon } y})$ for squarefull numbers and the bound $O(\kern1.3pt y^{(2 + \epsilon )/k})$ for k-full numbers when $k \ge 3$. These bounds are related to Roth’s theorem on arithmetic progressions and the conjecture on the nonexistence of three consecutive squarefull numbers.
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- © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.