Differentiability of arithmetic Fourier series arising from Eisenstein series

DOI10.1007/S11139-015-9748-YzbMATH Open1423.42003arXiv1411.5871OpenAlexW1782566277MaRDI QIDQ523693FDOQ523693

Publication date: 21 April 2017

Published in: The Ramanujan Journal, Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let

k

be even. We consider two series

F_{k} (x) = s u m_{n = 1}^{i} n f t y f r a c s i g m a_{k - 1} (n) n^{k + 1} s i n (2 p i n x)

and

G_{k} (x) = s u m_{n = 1}^{i} n f t y f r a c s i g m a_{k - 1} (n) n^{k + 1} c o s (2 p i n x)

, where

s i g m a_{k - 1}

is the divisor function. They converge on

m a t h b b R

to continuous functions. In this paper, we examine the differentiability of

F_{k}

and

G_{k}

. These functions are related to Eisenstein series and their (quasi-)modular properties allow us to apply the method proposed by Itatsu in 1981 in the study of the Riemann series. We focus on the case

k = 2

and we show that the sine series exhibits different behaviour with respect to differentiability than the cosine series. We prove that the differentiability of