Some new aspects and analytic technical applications of diophantine approximations
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Some new aspects and analytic technical applications of diophantine approximations
zbMATH Open document ID: 0716.11032
author: Miklós Mikolás
published in: Results in Mathematics
publication date: 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: This expository paper, dedicated to the memory of L. Collatz, deals with certain sharp asymptotical problems arising from diophantine approximations. The topics are connected also with analytic theory of numbers, higher zeta-functions, generalized integro-differential operators, as well as with some applications in telecommunication technology. The starting-point is a famous question due to Koksma (1947), answered partly by Erdős and completely by Gál in 1949, which was later extended and investigated further by the author, Carlitz, Mordell and others in several directions, until recent years. It can be formulated as follows: find such a close upper bound for the ``error square integral'' \[ \int^1_0[\sum^N_{\nu =1}(<n_{\nu}u>- 1/2)]^2\,du,\quad <x>=x-[x] \] \((n_1<n_2< \ldots <n_N\) denoting an arbitrary system of positive integers) which depends only on \(N\) and is independent of the special choice of the \(n_{\nu}\). This so-called ``estimate problem of Hardy and Littlewood'' admits strong generalizations in as much as the function \(x-1/2\) is replaced by Bernoulli polynomials of higher degree, or (more generally) by appropriate values of the Hurwitz and Lerch zeta-functions, the latter being defined by analytic continuation of the series \[ \sum^{\infty}_{m=0}(x+m)^{- s},\quad \sum^{\infty}_{m=0}(x+m)^{-s}e^{2m\pi i\omega},\quad \operatorname{Re} s>1, \] with respect to the complex variable \(s\). Since the Hurwitz zeta-function \(\zeta(s,x)\) occurs as ``kernel function'' also in H. Weyl's definition of ``fractional integral'', we get still new relations belonging to the theory of integro-differential operators of nonintegral order. The technical applications bear mainly on importance of the (1-periodic) function \(1/2-<x>\) and of its pendants in electrical engineering. (Cf. e.g. some works of Van der Pol since the fifties.) Note that the bibliography at the end of the paper contains nearly 40 items.
reviewed by: Miklós Mikolás
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11J71
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11M35
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 11N37
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 26A33
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 94A99
zbMATH DE Number: 4179459
zbMATH Keywords: distribution mod one
zbMATH Keywords: asymptotic results on arithmetic functions
zbMATH Keywords: expository paper
zbMATH Keywords: telecommunication
zbMATH Keywords: estimate problem of Hardy and Littlewood
zbMATH Keywords: Lerch zeta-functions
zbMATH Keywords: Hurwitz zeta-function
zbMATH Keywords: fractional integral
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