Decay of Mean Values of Multiplicative Functions

DOI10.4153/CJM-2003-047-0zbMATH Open1047.11093arXivmath/9911246MaRDI QIDQ4454046FDOQ4454046

Kannan Soundararajan, Andrew Granville

Publication date: 7 March 2004

Published in: Canadian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Given a multiplicative function f satisfying |f(n)| <= 1 for all n, the authors study the problem of obtaining explicit upper bounds on the mean-value 1/x |sum_{n <= x} f(n)|.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9911246

zbMATH Keywords

integral equationsexplicit upper boundsmean value of multiplicative functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic results on arithmetic functions (11N37) Rate of growth of arithmetic functions (11N56) Distribution functions associated with additive and positive multiplicative functions (11N60)

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• The spectrum of multiplicative functions
• Completely multiplicative functions taking values in ${-1,1}$
• Generalized Fourier coefficients of multiplicative functions
• ON BINARY CORRELATIONS OF MULTIPLICATIVE FUNCTIONS
• A note on Halász's theorem in \(\mathbb{F}_q[t]\)
• A footnote to a theorem of Halász
• Rate of decay of \(s\)-numbers
• Multiplicative functions in short intervals
• Proof of a conjecture of Heath-Brown concerning quadratic residues
• Divisor-bounded multiplicative functions in short intervals
• A sharp inequality of Halász type for the mean value of a multiplicative arithmetic function
• Pretentious multiplicative functions and the prime number theorem for arithmetic progressions
• A new proof of Halász’s theorem, and its consequences
• Multiplicative functions in short arithmetic progressions
• Large sums of high‐order characters
• Three conjectures about character sums
• A more intuitive proof of a sharp version of Halász’s theorem
• Mean values of multiplicative functions over function fields
• On multiplicative functions which are small on average
• Multiplicative functions in arithmetic progressions
• Asymptotics for multilinear averages of multiplicative functions
• Pretentiously detecting power cancellation
• On consecutive values of random completely multiplicative functions
• A refinement of the Burgess bound for character sums
• THE LOGARITHMICALLY AVERAGED CHOWLA AND ELLIOTT CONJECTURES FOR TWO-POINT CORRELATIONS
• Effective means for complex multiplicative functions
• Effective mean value estimates for complex multiplicative functions
• Additive functions in short intervals, gaps and a conjecture of Erdős
• Mean values of multiplicative functions
• Large character sums: Burgess's theorem and zeros of \(L\)-functions

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