The distribution of the generalized greatest common divisor and visibility of lattice points

zbMATH Open1464.11007arXiv2002.10056MaRDI QIDQ5207932FDOQ5207932

Authors: Jorge Florez, Cihan Karabulut, Elkin Quintero Vanegas 

Publication date: 14 January 2020

Abstract: For a fixed $binmathbbN=1,2,3,dots$, Goins et al. cite{Harris} defined the concept of $b$-visibility for a lattice point $(r,s)$ in $L=mathbbNimesmathbbN$ which states that $(r,s)$ is $b$-visible from the origin if it lies on the graph of $f(x)=a{x}^b$, for some positive $ainmathbbQ$, and no other lattice point in $L$ lies on this graph between $(0,0)$ and $(r,s)$. Furthermore, to study the density of $b$-visible points in $L$ Goins et al. defined a generalization of greatest common divisor, denoted by $gc{d}_b$, and proved that the proportion of $b$-visible lattice points in $L$ is given by $1/zeta(b+1)$, where $zeta(s)$ is the Riemann zeta function. In this paper we study the mean values of arithmetic functions $Lambda:LomathbbC$ defined using $gc{d}_b$ and recover the main result of cite{Harris} as a consequence of the more general results of this paper. We also investigate a generalization of a result in cite{Harris} that asserts that there are arbitrarily large rectangular arrangements of $b$-visible points in the lattice $L$ for a fixed $b$, more specifically, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for an arbitrary rectangular arrangement containing $b$-visible and $b$-invisible points to be realizable in the lattice $L$. Our result is inspired by the work of Herzog and Stewart cite{Herzog} who proved this in the case $b=1$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10056

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic functions; related numbers; inversion formulas (11A25) Asymptotic results on arithmetic functions (11N37)

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• Mean value estimates of gcd and lcm-sums

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