A remark on partial sums involving the Möbius function

DOI10.1017/S0004972709000884MaRDI QIDQ3552492zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Terence Tao

Publication date 22 April 2010

Published in Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.4323

zbMATH Keywords

effective inequalitiesMöbius functionprime number theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rate of growth of arithmetic functions (11N56)

Abstract: Let $<P>subsetN$ be a multiplicative subsemigroup of the natural numbers $N=1,2,3,\mathrm{...}$ generated by an arbitrary set $P$ of primes (finite or infinite). We given an elementary proof that the partial sums $su{m}_{nin<P>:nleqx}fracmu(n)n$ are bounded in magnitude by 1. With the aid of the prime number theorem, we also show that these sums converge to $pro{d}_{pinP}(1-frac1p)$ (the case when $P$ is all the primes is a well-known observation of Landau). Interestingly, this convergence holds even in the presence of non-trivial zeroes and poles of the associated zeta function $zet{a}_P(s):=pro{d}_{pinP}(1-frac1p^s{)}^{-1}$ on the line $Re(s)=1$. As equivalent forms of the first inequality, we have $|su{m}_{nleqx:(n,P)=1}fracmu(n)n|leq1$, $|su{m}_{n|N:nleqx}fracmu(n)n|leq1$, and $|su{m}_{nleqx}fracmu(mn)n|leq1$ for all $m,x,N,Pgeq1$.

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