scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1286771

Publication date 17 September 1999

\(q\)-additive arithmetic function \(q\)-adic expansion \(q\)-multiplicative function characterization of special arithmetic functions

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Arithmetic functions; related numbers; inversion formulas (11A25) Arithmetic functions in probabilistic number theory (11K65)

Review text

The arithmetical function \(a\) is called strongly \(q\)-additive resp. strongly \(q\)-multiplicative, if for any positive integer \(n\) with \(q\)-adic expansion \( \displaystyle n = \sum_{i\geq 0} b_i \cdot q^i \) (where \( b_i \in \{0, 1, \ldots, q-1\}) \) the relation \[ a(n) = \sum_{i \geq 0} a(b_i) \quad \text{resp.} \quad a(n) = \prod_{i \geq 0} a(b_i) \] holds. The author uses elementary methods to reprove the following results of \textit{T. Toshimitsu} [Tokyo J. Math. 21, 107-113 (1998; Zbl 0906.11036)]: 1) Assume that for given integers \( p, q > 1 \) the quotient \( {\log p \over \log q} \) is irrational. If \(a\) is an arithmetical function which is strongly \(p\)-additive and strongly \(q\)-additive, then the function \(a\) is identically zero. 2) Assume that for given integers \( p, q > 1 \) the quotient \( {\log p \over \log q} \) is irrational. If \(a\) is strongly \(p\)-multiplicative and \(q\)-multiplicative, then \( a(n) = 0 \) identically or \( a(n) = \gamma^n \) for \( n \geq 1 \), where \( \gamma^{p-1} = \gamma^{q-1} = 1 \). \(\{\) Reviewer's remark. Theorem 1 follows from Theorem 2, applied to \( \exp (\text{Re } a (\cdot)) \) and \( \exp (\text{Im } a(\cdot))\)\}.

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