On multiplicative functions with bounded partial sums

DOI10.1515/INTEGERS-2012-0002MaRDI QIDQ2911037zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joseph Vandehey

Publication date 12 September 2012

Published in Integers (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.1487, http://www.emis.de/journals/INTEGERS/papers/m19/m19.pdf

IPFS File on IPFS (Hint: this is only the Hash - if you get a timeout, this file is not available on our server.)

zbMATH Keywords

bounded partial sumsErdős discrepancy problemmultiplicative functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic results on arithmetic functions (11N37) Rate of growth of arithmetic functions (11N56) Other results on the distribution of values or the characterization of arithmetic functions (11N64)

Abstract: Consider a multiplicative function f(n) taking values on the unit circle. Is it possible that the partial sums of this function are bounded? We show that if we weaken the notion of multiplicativity so that f(pn)=f(p)f(n) for all primes p in some finite set P, then the answer is yes. We also discuss a result of Bronstein that shows that functions modified from characters at a finite number of places.

Review text

Let \(P\) a set of primes. The author calls an arithmetical function \(f: \mathbb N\to\mathbb C\) \(P\)-multiplicative, if \(f(pn)= f(p)f(n)\), \(p\in P\), \(n\in\mathbb N\). He discusses a special case of the Erdős discrepancy problem: he constructs for every finite \(P\) a \(P\)-multiplicative function \(f: \mathbb N\to\{1, -1\}\) with bounded partial sums.

Recommendations

• Tao's resolution of the Erdős discrepancy problem
• Multiplicative functions that are close to their mean
• Complex valued multiplicative functions with bounded partial sums
• Correlations of multiplicative functions and applications
• A Problem of Erdős and Kátai

Cited in

(8)

• On functions with bounded remainder
• Mock characters and the Kronecker symbol
• The bound of sums of multiplicative functions with shifted arguments
• Complex valued multiplicative functions with bounded partial sums
• Tao's resolution of the Erdős discrepancy problem
• Multiplicative functions that are close to their mean
• Beyond the Erd\H{o}s discrepancy problem in function fields
• Multiplicative functions of locally finite partially ordered sets. Multiplicativity criteria

This page was built for publication: On multiplicative functions with bounded partial sums

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2911037)