New limiting distributions for the Möbius function (Q2255409)

In the paper under review, the authors obtain some limiting results for a family of signed distributions supported on the set of square-free numbers. Their analysis is based on the Euler-type product \(\mu(n)=\prod(1-2\chi_p(n)+\chi_{p^2}(n))\) running over primes \(p\), where \(\chi_p\) and \(\chi_{p^2}\) are indicator functions defined by \(\chi_p(n)=1\) if \(p|n\) and \(\chi_p(n)=0\) otherwise, and also \(\chi_{p^2}(n)=1\) if \(p^2|n\) and \(\chi_{p^2}(n)=0\) otherwise. The above mentioned distributions give nontrivial generalizations of the Dickman-de Bruijn distribution to the signed valued case. Indeed, the authors obtain a representation for the generalized Dickman-de Bruijn distribution, which gives a full description of the singularities in the generalized Dickman-de Bruijn distribution. Regarding to some special singular terms, the authors establish a result giving the correct form of the limiting distribution. The proof of this result follows some careful contour integrations and applies several known analytic methods due to Selberg-Delange and Hildebrand-Tenenbaum.