Fonctions compl\`etement multiplicatives de somme nulle
Abstract
Completely multiplicative functions whose sum is zero ().The paper deals with , meaning completely multiplicative () functions such that and . means for all , therefore is well defined by the , prime. Assuming that is , give conditions on the , either necessary or sufficient, both is possible, for being : that is the general purpose of the authors.The character of is invariant under slight modifications of the sequence (theorem 3). The same idea applies also in a more general context (theorem 4).After general statements of that sort, including examples of (theorem 5), the paper is devoted to "small" functions, that is, functions of the form , where the are bounded. Here is a typical result : if and for all , a necessary and sufficient condition for to be is (theorem 8). Another necessary and sufficient condition is given under the assumption that and (theorem 7). A third result gives only a sufficient condition (theorem 9). The three results apply to the particular case , the historical example of Euler.Theorems 7 and 8 need auxiliary results, coming either from the existing literature (Hal\'asz, Montgomery--Vaughan), or from improved versions of classical results (Ingham, Ska{\l} ba) about under assumptions on the , * denoting the multiplicative convolution (theorems 10 and 11).
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@article{arxiv.1507.04858,
title = {Fonctions compl\`etement multiplicatives de somme nulle},
author = {Jean-Pierre Kahane and Eric Saias},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.04858},
year = {2015}
}
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