Multiplicative functions, exponential sums and the law of large numbers (Q266168)

Let \(f\) be a nonnegative multiplicative arithmetic function. For such function \(f\) and an arbitrary real \(x\geqslant 1\), let NEWLINE\[NEWLINE M_f(x)=\sum\limits_{n\leqslant x}f(n),\;L_f(x)=\sum\limits_{n\leqslant x}\frac{f(n)}{n}, \;E_f(x)=\prod\limits_{p\leqslant x}\Big(1+\frac{1}{p}\,\Big), NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(p\) denotes a prime number.NEWLINENEWLINEAccording to the well-known Halberstam-Richert upper bound, the estimate NEWLINE\[NEWLINE M_f(x)\leqslant (A+B+1)\,\frac{x}{\log x}\,L_f(x) NEWLINE\]NEWLINE holds under the following conditions: NEWLINE\[NEWLINE \sum\limits_{p\leqslant y}f(p)\log p\leqslant Ay,\;\sum\limits_{p}\sum\limits_{r=2}^\infty\frac{f(p^r)\log p^r}{p^r}\leqslant B. NEWLINE\]NEWLINE The author introduces a class of multiplicative nonnegative arithmetic functions satisfying the last two conditions and such that: NEWLINE\[NEWLINE L_f(x)\asymp E_f(x) ,\;M_f(x)\asymp \frac{x}{\log x}\,L_f(x).NEWLINE\]NEWLINE The obtained asymptotic relations are used to obtain new results for short sums of multiplicative functions over arithmetic progressions, for exponential sums with multiplicative coefficients and for the strong law of large numbers with multiplicative weights.