Sur les solutions friables de l'\'equation a+b=c

TL;DR

This paper refines estimates for the count of y-smooth solutions to a+b=c under the Generalised Riemann Hypothesis, extending validity ranges and establishing the exact asymptotic behavior of unweighted solutions.

Contribution

It provides more precise estimates for weighted solutions with larger y and confirms the conjectured upper bound for unweighted solutions, linking previous results.

Findings

Refined estimate for weighted solutions valid for larger y

Confirmed the conjectured upper bound for unweighted solutions

Established the exact asymptotic behavior of unweighted solutions

Abstract

Dans un r\'ecent article, Lagarias et Soundararajan \'etudient les solutions friables \`a l'\'equation a+b=c. Sous l'hypoth\`ese de Riemann g\'en\'eralis\'ees aux fonctions L de Dirichlet, ils obtiennent une estimation pour le nombre de solutions pond\'er\'ees par un poids lisse et une minoration pour le nombre de solutions non pond\'er\'ees. Le but de cet article est de pr\'esenter des arguments qui permettent d'une part de pr\'eciser les termes d'erreur et d'\'etendre les domaines de validit\'e de ces estimations afin de faire le lien avec un travail de la Bret\`eche et Granville, d'autre part d'obtenir le comportement asymptotique exact du nombre de solutions non pond\'er\'ees. In a recent paper, Lagarias and Soundararajan study the y-smooth solutions to the equation a+b=c. Under the Generalised Riemann Hypothesis, they obtain an estimate for the number of those solutions weighted by a compactly supported smooth function, as well as a lower bound for the number of bounded unweighted solutions. In this paper, we aim to prove a more precise estimate for the number of weighted solutions that is valid when y is relatively large with respect to x, so as to connect our estimate with the one obtained by La Bret\`eche and Granville in a recent work. We also prove the conjectured upper bound for the number of bounded unweighted solutions, thus obtaining its exact asymptotic behaviour.