Classes of arithmetical multiplicative functions and numerical derivative (Q4513044)

The author says that an arithmetical function belongs to the class \({\mathcal M}_{-k}\) if its Dirichlet inverse is of type \(k\) [see the author, Matematiche 50, No. 1, 39-45 (1995; Zbl 0840.11004)]. Properties of the classes \({\mathcal M}_{-1}\) and \({\mathcal M}_{-2}\) are discussed. These classes are subclasses of the well-known classes of completely and specially multiplicative functions. For similar properties of these well-known classes, see e.g. \textit{P. J. McCarthy} [Introduction to arithmetical functions. Universitext. New York etc.: Springer-Verlag (1986; Zbl 0591.10003)], \textit{P. J. McCarthy} and \textit{R. Sivaramakrishnan} [Fibonacci Q. 28, 363-370 (1990; Zbl 0721.11008)] and the reviewer [Math. Student 64, No. 1-4, 155-161 (1995)]. Properties of the numerical derivative of an arithmetical function \(f\), defined as \(\partial f(n)=\sum_{d|n} f(d)\mu(n/d)\), are also discussed.