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Partial sums of typical multiplicative functions over short moving intervals

Number Theory 2024-02-20 v4 Probability

Abstract

We prove that the kk-th positive integer moment of partial sums of Steinhaus random multiplicative functions over the interval (x,x+H](x, x+H] matches the corresponding Gaussian moment, as long as Hx/(logx)2k2+2+o(1)H\ll x/(\log x)^{2k^2+2+o(1)} and HH tends to infinity with xx. We show that properly normalized partial sums of typical multiplicative functions arising from realizations of random multiplicative functions have Gaussian limiting distribution in short moving intervals (x,x+H](x, x+H] with HX/(logX)W(X)H\ll X/(\log X)^{W(X)} tending to infinity with XX, where xx is uniformly chosen from {1,2,,X}\{1,2,\dots, X\}, and W(X)W(X) tends to infinity with XX arbitrarily slowly. This makes some initial progress on a recent question of Harper.

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@article{arxiv.2207.11758,
  title  = {Partial sums of typical multiplicative functions over short moving intervals},
  author = {Mayank Pandey and Victor Y. Wang and Max Wenqiang Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.11758},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

19 pages; final version, with some minor differences to the published version

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