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On a Ramanujan type expansion of arithmetical functions

Number Theory 2023-03-16 v2

Abstract

Srinivasa Ramanujan provided series expansions of certain arithmetical functions in terms of the exponential sums defined by cr(n)=m=1(m,r)=1re2πimnrc_r(n) = \sum\limits_{\substack{{m=1}\\ (m,r)=1}}^{r} e^{\frac{2 \pi imn}{r}} in [Trans. Cambridge Phillos. Soc, 22(13):259-276,1918]. Here we give similar type of expansions in terms of the Cohen-Ramanujan sum defined by E. Cohen in [Duke Mathematical Journal, 16(85-90):2, 1949] as crs(n)=h=1(h,rs)s=1rse2πinhrsc_r^s(n)=\sum\limits_{\substack{h=1\\ (h,r^s)_s=1}}^{r^s}e^{\frac{2\pi i n h}{r^s}}. We also provide some necessary and sufficient conditions for such expansions to exist.

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@article{arxiv.2205.08466,
  title  = {On a Ramanujan type expansion of arithmetical functions},
  author = {Arya Chandran and K Vishnu Namboothiri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.08466},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

The techniques which we adopted here can be used to derive infinite series expansions of some arithmetical functions using some other generalizations of Ramanujan sum