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On a weighted sum over multiplicative functions and its applications to the GPY sieve

Number Theory 2023-03-09 v3

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the asymptotics of a class of weighted sums over multiplicative functions and apply our results to deduce a stronger asymptotic form of Yitang Zhang's smoothened GPY sieve with coefficient expressions that are friendly to numerical computations.

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@article{arxiv.2210.01671,
  title  = {On a weighted sum over multiplicative functions and its applications to the GPY sieve},
  author = {Zihao Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.01671},
  year   = {2023}
}