Asymptotic approximations to the Hardy-Littlewood function

DOI10.1016/J.CAM.2012.06.038zbMATH Open1253.41030arXiv1204.2012OpenAlexW2148309129MaRDI QIDQ455899FDOQ455899

Authors: Alexey Kuznetsov 

Publication date: 22 October 2012

Published in: Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The function $Q(x):=su{m}_{nge1}(1/n)sin(x/n)$ was introduced by Hardy and Littlewood [10] in their study of Lambert summability, and since then it has attracted attention of many researchers. In particular, this function has made a surprising appearance in the recent disproof by Alzer, Berg and Koumandos [1] of a conjecture by Clark and Ismail [2]. More precisely, Alzer et. al. [1] have shown that the Clark and Ismail conjecture is true if and only if $Q(x)ge-pi/2$ for all $x>0$. It is known that $Q(x)$ is unbounded in the domain $xin(0,infty)$ from above and below, which disproves the Clark and Ismail conjecture, and at the same time raises a natural question of whether we can exhibit at least one point $x$ for which $Q(x)<-pi/2$. This turns out to be a surprisingly hard problem, which leads to an interesting and non-trivial question of how to approximate $Q(x)$ for very large values of $x$. In this paper we continue the work started by Gautschi in [7] and develop several approximations to $Q(x)$ for large values of $x$. We use these approximations to find an explicit value of $x$ for which $Q(x)<-pi/2$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.2012

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zbMATH Keywords

Eulerexponential sumPoisson summationHardyLittlewood functionMacLaurin formula

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic approximations, asymptotic expansions (steepest descent, etc.) (41A60) Trigonometric and exponential sums (general theory) (11L03)

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