Partition-theoretic formulas for arithmetic densities
Abstract
If , then a theorem of Alladi offers the M\"obius sum identity Here is the smallest prime divisor of . The right-hand side represents the proportion of primes in a fixed arithmetic progression modulo . Locus generalized this to Chebotarev densities for Galois extensions. Answering a question of Alladi, we obtain analogs of these results to arithmetic densities of subsets of positive integers using -series and integer partitions. For suitable subsets of the positive integers with density , we prove that where the sum is taken over integer partitions , is a partition-theoretic M\"obius function, is the size of partition , and is the smallest part of . In particular, we obtain partition-theoretic formulas for even powers of when considering power-free integers.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1704.06636,
title = {Partition-theoretic formulas for arithmetic densities},
author = {Ken Ono and Robert Schneider and Ian Wagner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.06636},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
The second version has been accepted for publication in Proceedings of Number Theory in Honor of Krishna Alladi's 60th Birthday, Springer