Alternating sums concerning multiplicative arithmetic functions

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Authors László Tóth

Publication date 3 January 2017

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.00795, http://www.emis.de/journals/JIS/VOL20/Toth/toth25.html

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zbMATH Keywords

alternating sumasymptotic formulaDedekind functionDirichlet seriesdivisor functionEuler's totient functiongcd-sum functionmultiplicative arithmetic functionreciprocal power seriessum-of-divisors functionunitary divisor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multiplicative structure; Euclidean algorithm; greatest common divisors (11A05) Arithmetic functions; related numbers; inversion formulas (11A25) Asymptotic results on arithmetic functions (11N37) Power series (including lacunary series) in one complex variable (30B10)

Abstract: We deduce asymptotic formulas for the alternating sums $su{m}_{nlex}(-1{)}^{n-1}f(n)$ and $su{m}_{nlex}(-1{)}^{n-1}frac1f(n)$, where $f$ is one of the following classical multiplicative arithmetic functions: Euler's totient function, the Dedekind function, the sum-of-divisors function, the divisor function, the gcd-sum function. We also consider analogs of these functions, which are associated to unitary and exponential divisors, and other special functions. Some of our results improve the error terms obtained by Bordell`{e}s and Cloitre. We formulate certain open problems.

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