The distribution of sums and products of additive functions

DOI10.5802/JTNB.1113zbMATH Open1476.11129OpenAlexW3081191349MaRDI QIDQ2199674FDOQ2199674

Authors: Greg Martin, Lee Troupe 

Publication date: 14 September 2020

Published in: Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The celebrated ErdH{o}s--Kac theorem says, roughly speaking, that the values of additive functions satisfying certain mild hypotheses are normally distributed. In the intervening years, similar normal distribution laws have been shown to hold for certain non-additive functions and for amenable arithmetic functions over certain subsets of the natural numbers. Continuing in this vein, we show that if $g_1(n),ldots,g_k(n)$ is a collection of functions satisfying certain mild hypotheses for which an ErdH{o}s--Kac-type normal distribution law holds, and if $Q(x_1,ldots,x_k)$ is a polynomial with nonnegative real coefficients, then $Q(g_1(n),ldots,g_k(n))$ also obeys a normal distribution law. We also show that a similar result can be obtained if the set of inputs $n$ is restricted to certain subsets of the natural numbers, such as shifted primes. Our proof uses the method of moments. We conclude by providing examples of our theorem in action.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04297

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zbMATH Keywords

additive functionsErdős-Kac theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic results on arithmetic functions (11N37) Distribution functions associated with additive and positive multiplicative functions (11N60)

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