Products of matrices and and the distribution of reduced quadratic irrationals

DOI10.1515/CRELLE.2007.038MaRDI QIDQ5421663zbMATHFDO

Authors Florin P. Boca

Publication date 24 October 2007

Published in Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0503186

zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet seriesmatricesquadratic irrationalsarithmetic functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Matrices, determinants in number theory (11C20) Asymptotic results on arithmetic functions (11N37) Other Dirichlet series and zeta functions (11M41)

Abstract: Let $Phi(N)$ denote the number of products of matrices $$ and $$ of trace equal to $N$, and $Psi(N)=su{m}_{n=3}^{N}Phi(n)$ be the number of such products of trace between $3$ and $N$. We prove an asymptotic formula of type $Psi(N)=c_1{N}^{2}logN+c_2{N}^2+O_{v}arepsilon(N^{7/4+varepsilon})$ as $Noinfty$. As a result, the Dirichlet series $su{m}_{n=1}^{i}nftyPhi(n)n^{-s}$ has a meromorphic extension in the half-plane $Re(s)>7/4$ with a single, order two pole at $s=2$. Our estimate also improves on an asymptotic result of Faivre concerning the distribution of reduced quadratic irrationals, providing an explicit upper bound for the error term.

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