Square-full numbers in short intervals

Abstract

A positive integer n is called square-full if p2|n for every prime factor p of n. Let Q(x) denote the number of square-full integers up to x. It was shown by Bateman and Grosswald [1] thatBateman and Grosswald also remarked that any improvement in the exponent would imply a ‘quasi-Riemann Hypothesis’ of the type for . Thus (1) is essentially as sharp as one can hope for at present. From (1) it follows that, for the number of square-full integers in a short interval, we havewhen and y = o (x½). (It seems more suggestive) to write the interval as (x, x + x½y]) than (x, x + y], since only intervals of length x½ or more can be of relevance here.)