How negative can \sum_{n\le x}\frac{f(n)}{n} be?

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Authors Bryce Kerr, Oleksiy Klurman

Publication date 10 November 2022

Abstract: Tur'an observed that logarithmic partial sums $su{m}_{nlex}fracf(n)n$ of completely multiplicative functions (in the particular case of the Liouville function $f(n)=lambda(n)$) tend to be positive. We develop a general approach to prove two results aiming to explain this phenomena. Firstly, we show that for every $varepsilon>0$ there exists some $x_{0}ge1,$ such that for any completely multiplicative function $f$ satisfying $-1lef(n)le1$, we have ${\displaystyle }$sum_{nle x}frac{f(n)}{n}ge -frac{1}{(loglog{x})^{1-varepsilon}}, quad xge x_0.${\displaystyle }$ This improves a previous bound due to Granville and Soundararajan. Secondly, we show that if $f$ is a typical (random) completely multiplicative function $f:mathbbNo-1,1$, the probability that $su{m}_{nlex}fracf(n)n$ is negative for a given large $x,$ is $O(exp(-exp(fraclogxcdotlogloglogxCloglogx))).$ This improves on recent work of Angelo and Xu.

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