Discrete uniform limit law for a sum of additive functions on shifted primes

DOI10.1007/S10986-018-9389-0MaRDI QIDQ1795413zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jonas Šiaulys, Gediminas Stepanauskas, Laura Žvinytė

Publication date 16 October 2018

Published in Lithuanian Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10986-018-9389-0

zbMATH Keywords

additive function discrete uniform distribution frequency weak convergence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic functions in probabilistic number theory (11K65) Asymptotic results on arithmetic functions (11N37)

Review text

The authors study the following question. Let $\{f, g\}$ be a pair of strongly additive functions such that for each prime $p$ both$f(p)$ and $g(p)$ are in $\{0, 1 \}$ and let $L \ge 2$ be an integer. When is the sequence $(f(p+1) + g(p+2))_p$ uniformly distributed modulo $L$? Two obvious examples are the cases when $L=2$, $f$ and $g$ vanish on all the primes different from $3$ and $f(3) + g(3) = 1$ or $f$ and $g$ vanish on all the primes different from $5$ and $f(5) + g(5) = 2$. A consequence of the main theorem of the authors is that under a condition of the type $f(p)$ and $g(p)$ are $o(1/\log(p))$ on average, the obvious above-mentioned examples are the only possibilities. The main result is actually stated for families of strongly additive functions $(f_x, g_x)$ with values in $\{0, 1\}$ satisfying the condition \[ \sum_{x^{\gamma} \le p \le x} (f_x(p) +g_x(p))/p = o(1/\log x), \text{ for any } \gamma \in (0, 1). \] The proof uses the method of factorial moments.

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