On the representation functions of certain numeration systems

Publication date 1 May 2023

Asymptotic enumeration (05A16) Radix representation; digital problems (11A63) Fibonacci and Lucas numbers and polynomials and generalizations (11B39) Other Dirichlet series and zeta functions (11M41)

Abstract: Let

be fixed. We consider the

(f r a k b, d)

numeration system, where the base

f r a k b = (b_{k})_{k g e q 0}

is a sequence of positive real numbers satisfying

, and the set of digits

f r a k d i 0

is a finite set of nonnegative real numbers with at least two elements. Let

r_{f r a k b, d} (l a m b d a)

denote the number of representations of a given

l a m b d a i n m a t h b b R

by sums

s u m_{k g e 0} d e l t a_{k} b_{k}

with

d e l t a_{k}

in

f r a k d

. We establish upper bounds and asymptotic formulas for

r_{f r a k b, d} (l a m b d a)

and its arbitrary moments, respectively. We prove that the associated zeta function

z e t a_{f r a k b, d} (s) := s u m_{l a m b d a > 0} r_{f r a k b, d} (l a m b d a) l a m b d a^{- s}

can be meromorphically continued to the entire complex plane when

, and to the half-plane

when

, with any fixed

g a m m a i n (0, 1]

, respectively. We also determine the possible poles, compute the residues at the poles, and locate the trivial zeros of

z e t a_{f r a k b, d} (s)

in the regions where it can be extended. As an application, we answer some problems posed by Chow and Slattery on partitions into distinct terms of certain integer sequences.

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