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A positive integer in this set has no prime factor equal to two or congruent to three modulo four. Its prime factors all lie in the residue class one modulo four. For example $5\cdot 13=65$ belongs, while $3^2=9$ does not, even though $9$ itself is congruent to one modulo four. A half-dimensional interval sieve bounds the count in an interval of length $z$ by $O(z/\sqrt{\log z})$.

In the level-$D$ convention used here, the Selberg upper-bound sieve states that a nonnegative sequence with sieve distribution $A_d=Xg(d)+r(d)$ satisfiesIt follows by minimizing the quadratic form with the Selberg sieve weights and using the Selberg least-common-multiple weights bound $|{\lambda }_d|\le 3^{\omega (d)}$.

Sieve the interval $x<n\le x+z$ by two and by the primes congruent to three modulo four, up to $L=\sqrt{D}$. The interval divisor counts giveThus $X=z$, $g(p)=1/p$, and $r(d)=O(1)$ uniformly in the location of the interval. Take $D=z^{1/2}$ and $L=z^{1/4}$.

To bound $J$, let $y=L^{1/4}$ and form the Euler product over the forbidden primes at most $y$. The given reciprocal-prime sum in residue class one modulo four, subtracted from the Mertens second theorem, yieldsMoreover, the Mertens first theorem bounds the logarithmic mean by ${\sum }_{p\le y}(\log p)/p=\log y+O(1)\le \frac{1}{2}\log L$ for large $L$. The truncated Euler-product lower bound gives $J\ge W/2\gg \sqrt{\log z}$.

The full-range summatory bound for three to the prime omega bounds the error by $O(D{\log }^{2}D)=O(\sqrt{z}{\log }^{2}z)$, which is $O(z/\sqrt{\log z})$. Every integer whose prime factors are all congruent to one modulo four survives this finite sieve. Therefore the half-dimensional interval sieve givesThe constants are independent of $x$. Enlarging them covers the bounded range of $z$ before the asymptotic product estimates apply, so the result holds throughout $1000\le z\le x$.

The progression version of the Mertens second theorem gives ${\sum }_{\begin{array}{c}p\le y\\ p\equiv 1(\mathrm{mod}4)\end{array}}1/p=\frac{1}{2}\log \log y+c+O(1/\log y)$. Subtracting from the all-prime sum shows that the forbidden primes $p\equiv 3(\mathrm{mod}4)$ contribute half the logarithmic density. This is the source of the square root in a half-dimensional interval sieve.