On the total variation of the sequence of fractional parts of the quotients of a positive real number by the consecutive natural numbers

zbMATH Open1426.11099arXiv1606.03378MaRDI QIDQ2011955FDOQ2011955

Authors: Michel Balazard 

Publication date: 27 July 2017

Published in: Moscow Journal of Combinatorics and Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give an asymptotic formula for the total variation of the sequence of fractional parts of the quotients of a positive real number by the consecutive natural numbers.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.03378

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zbMATH Keywords

total variationfractional partarithmetic functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic functions; related numbers; inversion formulas (11A25) Asymptotic results on arithmetic functions (11N37)

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