Remarks on sums of reciprocals of fractional parts

DOI10.4064/AA230512-1-1arXiv2305.07394OpenAlexW4392249718MaRDI QIDQ6436372FDOQ6436372

Authors: Bence Borda 

Publication date: 12 May 2023

Abstract: The Diophantine sums $su{m}_{n=1}^N|nalpha{|}^{-1}$ and $su{m}_{n=1}^N{n}^{-1}|nalpha{|}^{-1}$ appear in many different areas including the ergodic theory of circle rotations, lattice point counting and random walks, often in connection with Fourier analytic methods. Beresnevich, Haynes and Velani gave estimates for these and related sums in terms of the Diophantine approximation properties of $alpha$ that are sharp up to a constant factor. In the present paper, we remove the constant factor gap between the upper and the lower estimates, and thus find the precise asymptotics for a wide class of irrationals. Our methods apply to sums with the fractional part instead of the distance from the nearest integer function, and to sums involving shifts $$ as well. We also comment on a higher dimensional generalization of these sums.

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4064/aa230512-1-1

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Metric theory (11J83) Distribution modulo one (11J71) Small fractional parts of polynomials and generalizations (11J54)

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