Multiplicative processes in short intervals (Q1568063)

The authors consider a sequence of arithmetic processes generated by strongly multiplicative functions in the following way. Given a strongly multiplicative function \(g:{\mathbb N}\to{\mathbb R}\), let \(g_x^0(p)=|g(p)|^{1/\beta(x)}\text{ sgn}(g((p)))\), if \(g(p)\neq 0\), and \(g_x^0(p)=1\), otherwise. Here \(0<\beta(x)\to\infty\) as \(x\to\infty\). Let \(h_x\) be the additive part of \(g\) defined by \(h_x(m)=\sum_{p|m} \ln |g_p^0(p)|\). Finally let \[ G_x(m,u)=\prod_{p|m, p\leq z(u)} g_x(p)\exp\biggl(-\sum_{p\leq z(u)} h^*u(p)/p\biggr) \] with \(m\in {\mathbb N}\), \(u\in[0,1]\), \(z\) a suitable function, and \(u^*\) defined by \(u^*=u\) if \(|u|<1\), and \(\text{ sgn}(u)\) otherwise. In the paper the so-called M.D. convergence of a sequence \(\{G_x(m,u),m\in I_{xy}, u\in[0,1]\}\) with \(I_{xy}=\{m\in(x-y,x]\cap {\mathbb N}\}\) where \(x,t\in{\mathbb R}\) and \(1\leq y<x\), to a stochastically continuous process \(Z(u)\), \(u\in[0,1]\) with independent quotients such that \(\text{Prob}(Z(1)\in\{-a,0,a\})<1\) for each \(a\in{\mathbb R}\) is studied.