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Problem #886: Let $\epsilon>0$

Let $\epsilon>0$. Is it true that, for all large $n$, the number of divisors of $n$ in $(n^{1/2},n^{1/2}+n^{1/2-\epsilon})$ is $O_\epsilon(1)$?

Problem Statement

Let $\epsilon>0$. Is it true that, for all large $n$, the number of divisors of $n$ in $(n^{1/2},n^{1/2}+n^{1/2-\epsilon})$ is $O_\epsilon(1)$?
Categories: Number Theory Divisors

Progress

Erdős attributes this conjecture to Ruzsa. Erdős and Rosenfeld [ErRo97] proved that there are infinitely many $n$ such that there are four divisors of $n$ in $(n^{1/2},n^{1/2}+n^{1/4})$.

See also [887].

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