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 \[ M_f(x)=\sum\limits_{n\leqslant x}f(n),\;L_f(x)=\sum\limits_{n\leqslant x}\frac{f(n)}{n}, \;E_f(x)=\prod\limits_{p\leqslant x}\Big(1+\frac{1}{p}\,\Big), \] where \(p\) denotes a prime number. According to the well-known Halberstam-Richert upper bound, the estimate \[ M_f(x)\leqslant (A+B+1)\,\frac{x}{\log x}\,L_f(x) \] holds under the following conditions: \[ \sum\limits_{p\leqslant y}f(p)\log p\leqslant Ay,\;\sum\limits_{p}\sum\limits_{r=2}^\infty\frac{f(p^r)\log p^r}{p^r}\leqslant B. \] The author introduces a class of multiplicative nonnegative arithmetic functions satisfying the last two conditions and such that: \[ L_f(x)\asymp E_f(x) ,\;M_f(x)\asymp \frac{x}{\log x}\,L_f(x). \] 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.