## The least common multiple of a quadratic sequence.(English)Zbl 1248.11068

Let $$f$$ be an irreducible quadratic polynomial. The author studies the least common multiple of the integers $$f(1), f(2), \ldots, f(n)$$, and proves the following: We have $\log \mathrm{l.c.m} (f(1), \ldots, f(n) = n\log n + Bn+o(n),$ where $$B$$ is a constant depending on $$f$$, for which a quite complicated expression is derived. The author first indicates that the same result with $$O(n)$$ in place of $$o(n)$$ can be obtained in a straightforward manner, the error term essentially coming from rounding errors. To obtain $$o(n)$$ one has to obtain some cancellation between these rounding errors. To do so the author shows that as $$p$$ varies, the roots of $$f$$ modulo $$p$$ are equidistributed. Proving this equidistribution forms the bulk of the paper.

### MSC:

 11A05 Multiplicative structure; Euclidean algorithm; greatest common divisors 11B83 Special sequences and polynomials
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