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Finite and infinite Euler products of Ramanujan expansions

Number Theory 2019-11-12 v2

Abstract

All the F:F:N\rightarrow C having Ramanujan expansion F(a)=q=1G(q)cq(a)F(a)=\sum_{q=1}^{\infty}G(q)c_q(a) (here cq(a)c_q(a) is the Ramanujan sum) pointwise converging in aa\in N, with G:G:N\rightarrow C a multiplicative function, may be factored into two Ramanujan expansions, one of which is a finite Euler product : details in our Main Theorem. This is a general result, with unexpected and useful consequences, esp., for the Ramanujan expansion of null-function, say 0. The Main Theorem doesn't require other analytic assumptions, as pointwise convergence suffices; this depends on a general property of Euler pp-factors (the factors in Euler products) for the general term G(q)cq(a)G(q)c_q(a); namely, once fixed aa\in N (and prime pp), the pp-Euler factor of G(q)cq(a)G(q)c_q(a) (involving all pp-powers) has a finite number of non-vanishing terms (depending on aa) : see our Main Lemma. In case we also add some other hypotheses, like the absolute convergence, we get more classical Euler products: the infinite ones. For the Ramanujan expansion of 0 this strong hypothesis makes the class of 0 Ramanujan coefficients much smaller; also excluding Ramanujan's G(q)=1/qG(q)=1/q and Hardy's G(q)=1/φ(q)G(q)=1/\varphi(q) (φ\varphi is Euler's totient function). Our Main Theorem, instead, suffices to classify all the multiplicative Ramanujan coefficients for 0, so we also announce and (partially) prove this Classification.

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@article{arxiv.1910.14640,
  title  = {Finite and infinite Euler products of Ramanujan expansions},
  author = {Giovanni Coppola},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.14640},
  year   = {2019}
}

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