How negative can $\sum_{n\le x}\frac{f(n)}{n}$ be?
Number Theory
2022-11-11 v1 Probability
Abstract
Tur\'an observed that logarithmic partial sums of completely multiplicative functions (in the particular case of the Liouville function ) tend to be positive. We develop a general approach to prove two results aiming to explain this phenomena. Firstly, we show that for every there exists some such that for any completely multiplicative function satisfying , we have This improves a previous bound due to Granville and Soundararajan. Secondly, we show that if is a typical (random) completely multiplicative function , the probability that is negative for a given large is This improves on recent work of Angelo and Xu.
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@article{arxiv.2211.05540,
title = {How negative can $\sum_{n\le x}\frac{f(n)}{n}$ be?},
author = {Bryce Kerr and Oleksiy Klurman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.05540},
year = {2022}
}
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14 pages