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Good Ramanujan Expansions: A suitably enhanced decay of coefficients has important consequences

Number Theory 2025-09-30 v1

Abstract

In this self-contained short note, we introduce the new definition of Good Ramanujan Expansion, say G.R.E., for a fixed arithmetic function FF, building upon a good decay of its coefficients GG; this, gains log\log-powers w.r.t. the trivial bound for GG and precisely log1+η\log^{1+\eta}, where the present parameter η>0\eta>0 is real. This property alone has important consequences for all the FF having a G.R.E. : mainly, 1) the Eratosthenes Transform FF' of our FF is infinitesimal (see in Theorem 1); 2) when η>1\eta>1 (an enhanced decay) we have uniqueness of GG (actually, these are the classic Wintner-Carmichael coefficients, see Th.2); 3) we get a bound for FF (in Th.3); 4) an important new class of arithmetic functions FF can't have a G.R.E. (see Th.4). These are a generalization of Correlations; which in this way, if are, say, a kind of "far from constants", may not have a G.R.E., whence, a fortiori, can't have the R.E.E.F. This is the Ramanujan Exact Explicit Formula, that we introduced with Prof. Ram Murty.

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@article{arxiv.2509.24456,
  title  = {Good Ramanujan Expansions: A suitably enhanced decay of coefficients has important consequences},
  author = {Giovanni Coppola},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.24456},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

We introduce the Good Ramanujan Expansions: with good decay for coefficients, studying the consequences