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M\"obius inversion and coprime summation for error-sum functions of continued fractions

Number Theory 2025-10-14 v2 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

We study the unweighted error-sum function E(x)n0(xpn(x)/qn(x))\mathcal{E}(x) \coloneqq \sum_{n \geq 0} ( x- p_n(x)/q_n(x) ), where pn(x)/qn(x)p_n(x)/q_n(x) is the nnth convergent of the continued fraction expansion of xRx \in \mathbb{R}. We prove that the Hausdorff dimension of the graph of E\mathcal{E} is exactly equal to 11. Our proof is number-theoretic in nature and involves M\"obius inversion, summation over coprime convergent denominators, and precise upper bounds derived via continued fraction recurrence relations. As a supplementary result, we rederive the known upper bound of 3/23/2 for the Hausdorff dimension of the graph of the relative error-sum function P(x)n0(qn(x)xpn(x))P(x) \coloneqq \sum_{n \geq 0} (q_n(x)x-p_n(x)).

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@article{arxiv.2507.16536,
  title  = {M\"obius inversion and coprime summation for error-sum functions of continued fractions},
  author = {Min Woong Ahn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.16536},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

24 pages, typos corrected, Lemma 4.1 added