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Effective Erd\H{o}s-Wintner theorems for digital expansions

Number Theory 2020-09-14 v1

Abstract

In 1972 Delange observed in analogy of the classical Erd\H os-Wintner theorem that qq-additive functions f(n)f(n) has a distribution function if and only if the two series f(dqj)\sum f(d q^j), f(dqj)2\sum f(d q^j)^2 converge. The purpose of this paper is to provide quantitative versions of this theorem as well as generalizations to other kinds of digital expansions. In addition to the qq-ary and Cantor case we focus on the Zeckendorf expansion that is based on the Fibonacci sequence, where we provide a sufficient and necessary condition for the existence of a distribution function, namely that the two series f(Fj)\sum f(F_j), f(Fj)2\sum f(F_j)^2 converge (previously only a sufficient condition was known).

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@article{arxiv.2009.05435,
  title  = {Effective Erd\H{o}s-Wintner theorems for digital expansions},
  author = {Michael Drmota and Johann Verwee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.05435},
  year   = {2020}
}

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26 pages

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