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Analysis of Summatory Functions of Regular Sequences: Transducer and Pascal's Rhombus

Combinatorics 2018-09-07 v1

Abstract

The summatory function of a qq-regular sequence in the sense of Allouche and Shallit is analysed asymptotically. The result is a sum of periodic fluctuations for eigenvalues of absolute value larger than the joint spectral radius of the matrices of a linear representation of the sequence. The Fourier coefficients of the fluctuations are expressed in terms of residues of the corresponding Dirichlet generating function. A known pseudo Tauberian argument is extended in order to overcome convergence problems in Mellin--Perron summation. Two examples are discussed in more detail: The case of sequences defined as the sum of outputs written by a transducer when reading a qqary expansion of the input and the number of odd entries in the rows of Pascal's rhombus.

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@article{arxiv.1802.03266,
  title  = {Analysis of Summatory Functions of Regular Sequences: Transducer and Pascal's Rhombus},
  author = {Clemens Heuberger and Daniel Krenn and Helmut Prodinger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.03266},
  year   = {2018}
}