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A note on multiplicative automatic sequences, II

Number Theory 2020-02-05 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

We prove that any qq-automatic multiplicative function f:NCf:\mathbb{N}\to\mathbb{C} either essentially coincides with a Dirichlet character, or vanishes on all sufficiently large primes. This confirms a strong form of a conjecture of J. Bell, N. Bruin, and M. Coons.

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@article{arxiv.1905.10897,
  title  = {A note on multiplicative automatic sequences, II},
  author = {Oleksiy Klurman and Pär Kurlberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.10897},
  year   = {2020}
}