Recent progress in probabilistic number theory

Publication date 23 June 2003

additive arithmetical function asymptotic density asymptotic expansion of distribution laws existence of integral limit laws large deviations for additive functions probabilistic number theory probability number theory upper and lower bounds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to number theory (11-02) Arithmetic functions in probabilistic number theory (11K65) Distribution functions associated with additive and positive multiplicative functions (11N60) Large deviations (60F10)

Review text

This article is a survey of some recent and interesting results and methods in probabilistic number theory. The author presents value distributions for additive, strongly additive, and multiplicative arithmetic functions, and shows them to hold for certain (simple) laws formulated and proved with the ideas and methods from probability theory. The classic problems in studying the number-theoretic functions are to obtain (upper and lower) bounds for these functions and to discover the asymptotic behavior of the mean of the function values (or partial sums of function values). There are considered, e.g., methods utilized to obtain necessary and/or sufficient conditions for the existence of integral (limit) laws, asymptotic expansion of the distribution laws, or large deviations for some additive functions, real-valued and integer-valued strongly additive arithmetical functions. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0995.00013].

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