The Distribution of k-Free Effective Divisors and the Summatory Totient Function in Function Fields

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Authors: Sanjana Das, Hannah Lang, Hamilton Wan, Nancy Xu 

Publication date: 30 June 2022

Abstract: Motivated by the study of the summatory $k$-free indicator and totient functions in the classical setting, we investigate their function field analogues. First, we derive an expression for the error terms of the summatory functions in terms of the zeros of the associated zeta function. Under the Linear Independence hypothesis, we explicitly construct the limiting distributions of these error terms and compute the frequency with which they occur in an interval $$ for a real $$. We also show that these error terms are unbiased, that is, they are positive and negative equally often. Finally, we examine the average behavior of these error terms across families of hyperelliptic curves of fixed genus. We obtain these results by following a general framework initiated by Cha and Humphries.

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