Polynomial sieves with simultaneous congruence conditions #
Conditioning on pairwise coprime polynomial congruences preserves the sifting density at primes coprime to their moduli. The main term keeps the full joint congruence density; the remainder costs its numerator.
theorem
NairTenenbaum.exists_conditional_polynomial_sieve_bound
{g η : ℝ}
(hg : 1 ≤ g)
(hη : 0 < η)
:
∃ (K : ℝ),
1 ≤ K ∧ ∀ (Q : Polynomial ℤ),
NoFixedPrimeDivisor Q →
↑Q.natDegree ≤ g →
∀ (P : ℕ),
Squarefree P →
(∀ (p : ℕ), Nat.Prime p → p ∣ P → 0 < rootCount Q p) →
∀ (r : ℕ) (R : Fin r → Polynomial ℤ) (m : Tuple r),
(Pairwise fun (i j : Fin r) => (↑(m i)).Coprime ↑(m j)) →
P.Coprime (mass m) →
∀ (a b : ℤ) (z : ℝ),
a ≤ b →
2 ≤ z →
16 ≤ Real.log z →
(∀ p ∈ P.primeFactors, ↑p ≤ z) →
↑(conditionalPolynomialSiftedCount Q P R m a b) ≤ (4 * (↑b - ↑a) * ∏ i : Fin r, ↑(rootCount (R i) ↑(m i)) / ↑↑(m i)) * ∏ p ∈ P.primeFactors, (1 - ↑(rootCount Q p) / ↑p) + (K * ∏ i : Fin r, ↑(rootCount (R i) ↑(m i))) * z ^ (4 * g * (1 + η))
The congruence density remains in the main term; its numerator controls the error. The constant is uniform in the congruence polynomials and moduli.