New limiting distributions for the Möbius function
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: New limiting distributions for the Möbius function
zbMATH Open document ID: 1318.11100
author: Maria Avdeeva
author: Dong Li
author: Ya. G. Sinai
published in: Moscow Journal of Combinatorics and Number Theory
publication date: 2015-02-16T00:00:00Z
review text: In the paper under review, the authors obtain some limiting results for a family of signed distributions supported on the set of square-free numbers. Their analysis is based on the Euler-type product \(\mu(n)=\prod(1-2\chi_p(n)+\chi_{p^2}(n))\) running over primes \(p\), where \(\chi_p\) and \(\chi_{p^2}\) are indicator functions defined by \(\chi_p(n)=1\) if \(p|n\) and \(\chi_p(n)=0\) otherwise, and also \(\chi_{p^2}(n)=1\) if \(p^2|n\) and \(\chi_{p^2}(n)=0\) otherwise. The above mentioned distributions give nontrivial generalizations of the Dickman-de Bruijn distribution to the signed valued case. Indeed, the authors obtain a representation for the generalized Dickman-de Bruijn distribution, which gives a full description of the singularities in the generalized Dickman-de Bruijn distribution. Regarding to some special singular terms, the authors establish a result giving the correct form of the limiting distribution. The proof of this result follows some careful contour integrations and applies several known analytic methods due to Selberg-Delange and Hildebrand-Tenenbaum.
reviewed by: Mehdi Hassani
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11K65
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11N37
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 28A33
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 60F05
zbMATH DE Number: 6404012
zbMATH Keywords: Möbius function
zbMATH Keywords: Euler-type product
zbMATH Keywords: limit theorems
zbMATH Keywords: signed measures
zbMATH Keywords: generalized Dickman-de Bruijn distributions
zbMATH Keywords: contour integration
zbMATH Keywords: Selberg-Delange method
zbMATH Keywords: Hildebrand-Tenenbaum theorem
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6404012