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Sharp omega results for the divisor and circle problems

Youness Lamzouri
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We establish omega results for the divisor and circle problems that are conjecturally sharp, while also determining the sign of the large values obtained. This improves on the work of Soundararajan and on the subsequent independent refinements of Sourmelidis and Mahatab, and gives the first improvement on Hafner's 1981 $Ω_+$ result for the divisor problem and his $Ω_-$ result for the circle problem. The main new ingredient is a resonance method which works directly with the phase appearing in the Voronoï summation formula. This is achieved by replacing the usual positive kernels by a one-sided sectorial kernel, namely the density of a Gamma distribution, whose Fourier transform lies in a suitable sector of the complex plane.

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Youness Lamzouri. 2026-05-20. Sharp omega results for the divisor and circle problems. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21476

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