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Sums with Stern-Brocot sequences and Minkowski question mark function

Number Theory 2025-09-18 v3

Abstract

We give an affirmative answer to a question asked by N. Moshchevitin \cite{m1} in his lecture at International Congress of Basic Science, Beijing, 2024 (see also \cite{m}, Section 6.3). The question is that whether the remainder Rn=j=12n(ξj,nj2n)22n01(?(x)x))2dx R_n=\sum_{j=1}^{2^n}\left(\xi_{j,n}-\frac{j}{2^n}\right)^2-2^n\int_0^1( ?(x)-x))^2\text{d}x tends to 00 when nn tends to infinity, where ξj,n\xi_{j,n} are elements of the Stern-Brocot sequence and ?(x)?(x) denotes Minkowski Question-Mark Function. We present some extended results and give a correct proof of a theorem on the Fourier-Stieltjes coefficient of the inverse function of ?(x)?(x).

Cite

@article{arxiv.2504.07456,
  title  = {Sums with Stern-Brocot sequences and Minkowski question mark function},
  author = {Haomin Liu and Jiadong Lü and Yonghao Xie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.07456},
  year   = {2025}
}
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