Finding almost squares. V.
∗ This research is partially supported by the Bulgarian National Science Fund under contract MM-403/9We review the existing estimates for the number of integer points close to a smooth curve and improve on some of these.
We express , as defined in the title, for and prime in terms of values of characters modulo . Using this, we show that the universal lower bound for can, in general, be substantially improved when is composed of primes lying in a fixed residue class modulo . We also prove a corresponding improvement when is the product of the first s primes for infinitely many natural numbers .
In this paper we consider an extension to friable integers of the arcsine law for the mean distribution of the divisors of integers, originally due to Deshouillers, Dress and Tenenbaum.We describe the limit law and show that it departs from the arcsine law when the friability parameter increases. More precisely, as , the mean distribution shifts from the arcsine law towards Gaussian behaviour.