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Quadratic reciprocity and Some "non-differentiable" functions

Number Theory 2017-10-24 v1

Abstract

Riemann's non-differentiable function and Gauss's quadratic reciprocity law have attracted the attention of many researchers. In \cite{RM} Murty and Pacelli gave an instructive proof of the quadratic reciprocity via the theta-transformation formula and Gerver \cite{G1} was the first to give a proof of differentiability/non-differentiability of Riemnan's function. The aim here is to survey some of the work done in these two questions and concentrates more onto a recent work of the first author along with Kanemitsu and Li \cite{K1}. In that work \cite{K1} an integrated form of the theta function was utilised and the advantage of that is that while the theta-function Θ(τ)\Theta(\tau) is a dweller in the upper-half plane, its integrated form F(z)F(z) is a dweller in the extended upper half-plane including the real line, thus making it possible to consider the behaviour under the increment of the real variable, where the integration is along the horizontal line.

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@article{arxiv.1710.07777,
  title  = {Quadratic reciprocity and Some "non-differentiable" functions},
  author = {Kalyan Chakraborty and Azizul Hoque},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.07777},
  year   = {2017}
}

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35 pages

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