Products of Farey fractions

DOI10.1080/10586458.2015.1020578zbMATH Open1422.11167arXiv1503.00199OpenAlexW3099285276MaRDI QIDQ2969992FDOQ2969992

Authors: Jeffrey C. Lagarias, Harsh Mehta 

Publication date: 24 March 2017

Published in: Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The {Farey fractions} $F_n$ of order $n$ consist of all fractions $frachk$ in lowest terms lying in the closed unit interval and having denominator at most $n$. This paper considers the products $F_n$ of all nonzero Farey fractions of order $n$. It studies their growth measured by $log(F_n)$ and their divisibility properties by powers of a fixed prime, given by $or{d}_p(F_n)$, as a function of $n$. The growth of $log(F_n)$ is related to the Riemann hypothesis. This paper theoretically and empirically studies the functions $or{d}_p(F_n)$ and formulates several unproved properties (P1)-(P4) they may have. It presents evidence raising the possibility that the Riemann hypothesis may also be encoded in $or{d}_p(F_n)$ for a single prime $p$. This encoding makes use of a relation of these products to the products $G_n$ of all reduced and unreduced Farey fractions of order $n$, which are connected by M"obius inversion. It involves new arithmetic functions which mix the M"obius function with functions of radix expansions to a fixed prime base $p$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.00199

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zbMATH Keywords

Farey sequenceunreduced Farey sequence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Metric theory of other algorithms and expansions; measure and Hausdorff dimension (11K55) Farey sequences; the sequences (1^k, 2^k, dots) (11B57) Non-Archimedean dynamical systems (11S82)

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