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We establish a central limit theorem of $(1/\sqrt{h_p})\sum_{X< n \leq X+h_p}\big(\tfrac{n}{p}\big)$ for almost all the primes $p$, with $X$ uniformly random in $[g(p)]$, $g(p)$ an arbitrary divergent function growing slower than any power…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Paweł Nosal

Let $P^{\left(\frac 12\right)}(n)$ denote the middle prime factor of $n$ (taking into account multiplicity). More generally, one can consider, for any $\alpha \in (0,1)$, the $\alpha$-positioned prime factor of $n$, $P^{(\alpha)}(n)$. It…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-03 Nathan McNew , Paul Pollack , Akash Singha Roy

A multiplicative function $f$ is said to be resembling the M\"{o}bius function if $f$ is supported on the square-free integers, and $f(p)=\pm 1$ for each prime $p$. We prove $O$- and $\Omega$-results for the summatory function $\sum_{n\leq…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-10 Qingyang Liu

The secondary zeta function $Z(s)=\sum_{n=1}^\infty\alpha_n^{-s}$, where $\rho_n=\frac12+i\alpha_n$ are the zeros of zeta with $\Im(\rho)>0$, extends to a meromorphic function on the hole complex plane. If we assume the Riemann hypothesis…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Juan Arias de Reyna

We prove that when $f$ is a Rademacher random multiplicative function for any $\epsilon>0$, then $\sum_{n \leqslant x}\frac{f(n)}{\sqrt{n}} \ll (\log\log(x))^{3/4+\epsilon}$ for almost all $f$. We also show that there exist arbitrarily…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Christopher Atherfold

For $X(n)$ a Rademacher or Steinhaus random multiplicative function, we consider the random polynomials $$ P_N(\theta) = \frac1{\sqrt{N}} \sum_{n\leq N} X(n) e(n\theta), $$ and show that the $2k$-th moments on the unit circle $$ \int_0^1…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-11-23 Jacques Benatar , Alon Nishry , Brad Rodgers

In this paper analyzes \textit{The Erd\H{o}s-Straus conjecture} asserts that $f$$(n)$ $>$ 0 for every $n$ $\geq$ 2, where $f(n)$ indicates the number of solutions to the Diophantine Equation…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2016-09-02 Elias Rios

We conjecture a formula for the symmetric function $\frac{[n-k]_t}{[n]_t}\Delta_{h_m}\Delta_{e_{n-k}}\omega(p_n)$ in terms of decorated partially labelled square paths. This can be seen as a generalization of the square conjecture of Loehr…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-06 Michele D'Adderio , Alessandro Iraci , Anna Vanden Wyngaerd

Let $f(z)=\sum_{n=1}^\infty a(n)q^n\in S^{\text{new}}_ k (\Gamma_0(N))$ be a newform with squarefree level $N$ that does not have complex multiplication. For a prime $p$, define $\theta_p\in[0,\pi]$ to be the angle for which $a(p)=2p^{( k…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-13 Jeremy Rouse , Jesse Thorner

Sun and Farooq [2] showed that random samples can be efficiently drawn from an arbitrary n-dimensional hyperellipsoid by transforming samples drawn randomly from the unit n-ball. They stated that it was a straightforward to show that, given…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-06 Jonathan D. Gammell , Timothy D. Barfoot

The goal of this expository article is a fairly self-contained account of some averaging processes of functions along sequences of the form $(\alpha^n x)^{}_{n\in\mathbb{N}}$, where $\alpha$ is a fixed real number with $| \alpha | > 1$ and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-24 Michael Baake , Alan Haynes , Daniel Lenz

We show that almost all primes $p\not\equiv \pm 4 \bmod{9}$ are sums of three cubes, assuming a conjecture due to Hooley, Manin, et al. on cubic fourfolds. This conjecture is approachable under standard statistical hypotheses on geometric…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Victor Y. Wang

Let $\zeta(.)$ denote the Riemann zeta function and let $a(.)$ and $A(.)$ respectively denote a multiplicative function and its corresponding summatory function. We consider the correlation $$ \langle a(n)A(n-1) \rangle (T) =…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Gordon Chavez

Every element $\theta=(\theta_1,\ldots,\theta_n)$ of the probability $n$-simplex induces a probability distribution $P_\theta$ of a random variable $X$ that can assume only a finite number of real values $x_1 < \cdots < x_n$ by defining…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-09-08 S. Fried

By giving the definition of the sum of a series indexed by a set on which a group acts, we prove that the sum of the series that defines the Riemann zeta function, the Epstein zeta function, and a few other series indexed by $\Z^k$ has an…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Madhav V. Nori

Let $p_n$ be the $n$th prime, and consider the sequence $s_n = (2\cdot3\cdots p_n)^{1/n} = (p_n\#)^{1/n}$, the geometric mean of the first $n$ primes. We give a short proof that $p_n/s_n \to e$, a result conjectured by Vrba (2010) and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-03 Alexei Kourbatov

A stochastic algorithm is proposed, finding some elements from the set of intrinsic $p$-mean(s) associated to a probability measure $\nu$ on a compact Riemannian manifold and to $p\in[1,\infty)$. It is fed sequentially with independent…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-24 Marc Arnaudon , Laurent Miclo

Let $x\ge 2$. The $\psi$-form of the prime number theorem is $\psi(x) =\sum\sb{n \le x}\Lambda(n) =x +O\bigl(x\sp{1-H(x)} \log\sp{2} x\big)$, where $H(x)$ is a certain function of $x$ with $0< H(x) \le \tfrac{1}{2}$. Tur\'an proved in 1950…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Yuanyou Cheng , Glenn Fox , Mehdi Hassani

We collect experimental evidence for several propositions, including the following: (1) For each Riemann zero $\rho$ (trivial or nontrivial) and each zeta fixed point $\psi$ there is a nearly logarithmic spiral $s_{\rho, \psi}$ with center…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-03-31 Barry Brent

We establish a generalization of Littlewood's criterion on $L^\alpha$-flatness by proving that there is no $L^\alpha$-flat polynomials, $\alpha>0$, within the class of analytic polynomials on the unit circle of the form $…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-05 el Houcein el Abdalaoui