The structure of multiplicative functions with small partial sums

DOI10.19086/DA.11963MaRDI QIDQ5126769zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dimitris Koukoulopoulos, Kannan Soundararajan

Publication date 20 October 2020

Published in Discrete Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.13105

zbMATH Keywords

converse theoremLSD methodmultiplicative functionpartial sumspartial sums over primes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rate of growth of arithmetic functions (11N56) Other results on the distribution of values or the characterization of arithmetic functions (11N64)

Abstract: The Landau-Selberg-Delange method provides an asymptotic formula for the partial sums of a multiplicative function whose average value on primes is a fixed complex number $v$. The shape of this asymptotic implies that $f$ can get very small on average only if $v=0,-1,-2,dots$. Moreover, if $v<0$, then the Dirichlet series associated to $f$ must have a zero of multiplicity $-v$ at $s=1$. In this paper, we prove a converse result that shows that if $f$ is a multiplicative function that is bounded by a suitable divisor function, and $f$ has very small partial sums, then there must be finitely many real numbers $gamm{a}_1$, $dots$, $gamm{a}_m$ such that $f(p)approx-p^{igamm{a}_1}-cdots-p^{-igamm{a}_m}$ on average. The numbers $gamm{a}_j$ correspond to ordinates of zeroes of the Dirichlet series associated to $f$, counted with multiplicity. This generalizes a result of the first author, who handled the case when $|f|le1$ in previous work.

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