Questions tagged [analytic-number-theory]
A beautiful blending of real/complex analysis with number theory. The study involves distribution of prime numbers and other problems and helps giving asymptotic estimates to these.
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Real part of the Riemann zeta function
Consider the real part of the Riemann zeta function on the critical line. Are there any results for the number of zeros of this real function in the interval [0,T]?
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Large prime divisors of values of a polynomial, in a given residue class
Let $f(X) \in \mathbb{Z}[X]$ be an irreducible polynomial of degree $d \geq 2$. Let $q \in \mathbb{N}$ be an integer, and let $q \mathbb{Z} + r$ be a residue class that contains infinitely many primes ...
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Upper bound on sum of Lambda(n) over short interval
I am looking for a bound of type
$$\sum_{x<n\leq x+y} \Lambda(n) \leq \frac{\log(x+y)}{\log y} \cdot 2y$$
(or better). Of course such a bound has to exist: the idea of the proof of Brun-Titchmarsh (...
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A conjectured series expression for the Riemann $\xi$-function and/or Completed L-series. Could this be proven?
This post builds on an MSE question about a conjectured series expression for the Riemann $\xi$-function:
$$\xi(s) = \xi(1-s) = \sum_{n=1}^\infty (-1)^{n+1}\,\big(\xi\left(s+in\right)+\xi\left(1-s+in\...
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Analyticity of unramifed part of Rankin-Selberg $L$-functions on $\Re(s)=1$
I have only a little knowledge about automorphic representations and $L$-functions. Now I am reading the textbook of Goldfeld and Hundley on automorphic representations, and also planning to read the ...
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Approximating $\zeta'/\zeta$ (and its derivatives) by a finite sum
Let $A(s) = (-\zeta'/\zeta)^{(r)}(s) = \sum_n a_n n^{-s}$, where $r\geq 0$. (We can consider $r=0$ first for simplicity.) Say I want to approximate $A(s)$ for $s=1+it$ by a finite sum - preferably a ...
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Does there exist an $L$-function for any subset of $\mathbb{N}$?
Consider the following prime sum:
\begin{aligned}
\sum _{p}{\frac {\cos(x\log p)}{p^{1/2}}}
\end{aligned}
whose spikes appear at the Riemann $\zeta$ zeros as shown here.
Taking these detected spikes (...
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On fifth powers forming a Sidon set
We call a set of natural numbers $\mathcal S$ to be a Sidon Set if $a+b=c+d$ for $a,b,c,d\in \mathcal S$ implies $\{a,b\}=\{c,d\}$. In other words, all pairwise sums are distinct.
Erdős conjectured ...
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Is there any use of logarithmic derivatives of modular forms?
Does taking the logarithmic derivative of a modular form have any uses, such as identifying patterns in its coefficients or possible zeros of its corresponding L function?
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Is every real number in [0,1] a product of three (or more) Cantor set's numbers?
It is well known that every number $x$ in the unit interval $[0,1]$ is the arithmetic mean of two elements of the (triadic) Cantor set $C$. The way to see it I like the most: the Cantor set is the ...
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Taking integer values of a sequence of Beurling primes
Let $P=(p_j)_{j=1}^\infty$ be an increasing sequence of real numbers with $1<p_1$ and $\lim_{j\to\infty}p_j=\infty$. As mentioned in [1], Beurling proved that if the multiplicative group $N_P$ ...
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'$\times$' or '$\otimes$' when writing $L$-functions?
Recently, I came across the Langlands correspondence theorem, there is the following line:
$$L(s,\pi(\sigma) \times \pi(\tau)) = L(s,\sigma \otimes \tau), $$
where $\sigma$ and $\tau$ are ...
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Does summing divergent series using cutoff functions give consistent results?
One way to try to give a value $S$ to a divergent series $\sum_{n=1}^\infty a_n$ is with a smooth cutoff function:
$$
S = \lim_{N\to\infty}\sum_{n=1}^\infty a_n \eta\left(\frac{n}{N}\right)
$$
where $\...
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Can all modular forms be written as Eta Quotients?
I have been going through a couple of introductory courses in modular forms and am quite curious whether all modular forms can be written as eta quotients of the Dedekind eta function?
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Computing hypergeometric function at 1
I'm looking to compute
$${}_ 3F_ 2\biggl(\begin{matrix} -m-1/2,\ -m,\ k-m+1/2 \cr
1/2-m,\ k-m+3/2\end{matrix};1\biggr)$$
for $m,k > 0$ are positive integers and $0 < k < m$. I'm wondering if ...
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Behavior of Dirichlet L-functions at the edge of the critical strip
Given a Dirichlet L-function $L(\chi, s)$ of a primitive character $\chi$, what is the asymptotic behavior of $L(\chi, 1+it)$ for real $t$? I am looking for as many answers for the same question. This ...
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Linear third order water wave pde admitting particular gamma factor solution. How do you understand evolution on vertical strip in complex plane?
I would like to understand a little bit about how to interpret and construct $1$-parameter gamma factors that are dynamical - that is they are particular solutions to linear PDE's. Some possible ...
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Does this partial sum over primes spike at all zeta zeros?
Below is a plot of $\exp \sum _p^x -\frac{\cos \left(x \log \
p\right)}{\sqrt{p}}$, where $p$ runs over the primes, and the $x$-values of the Riemann $\zeta$ zeros are marked with dashed lines:
Below ...
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Decrease of $(1/\zeta)^{(r)}(\sigma + i T)$ as $\sigma\to -\infty$?
What is a standard reference for the simple fact that, for $T$ fixed and $\sigma\to -\infty$,
every derivative $|(1/\zeta)^{(r)}(\sigma+i T)|$ of the Riemann zeta function decreases faster than any ...
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$L^1$ norm for a product of cosines
Let $k$ be an integer and consider the function
$$
f(t)=\prod_{i=1}^{k} \cos(3^{i-1}\pi t).
$$
I'm interested in finding bounds for $\int_{0}^{1}|f(t)|dt$ in terms of $k$. The first idea that comes to ...
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Can any Hurwitz zeta function be written as an Euler product?
I am attempting to understand the behavior of Hurwitz zeta functions and for what $a$ do they have an analytic continuation. Is it possible to write any Hurwitz zeta as an Euler product or are there ...
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Number of divisors which are at most $n$
I’m interested in the function $\tau_n:\mathbb{N}\to\{1,2,3,\cdots, n\}$ defined by
$$\tau_n(x)=\sum_{k=1}^n \mathbf{1}_{k\mid x},$$
the number of divisors of $x$ which are at most $n$. Question 6 of ...
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Generating function over primes in an arithmetic progression
Given a newform $\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}a(n)q^n$. Is the generating function
$$
\sum_{p\equiv a\pmod{m}}a(p)q^p
$$
over the primes $p\equiv a\pmod{m}$ still a modular form? Any help is highly appreciated! ...
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Smallest prime factor of numbers
The literature refers to smooth integers as \begin{equation}\Psi(x,y):=\#\{n\le x:P_1(n)\le y\},\end{equation} where $P_1(n)$ is the largest prime factor of $n$. There are lots of results studying $\...
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Asymptotic counts for imaginary quadratic discriminants with fixed splitting conditions
Let $p$ be prime and $r$ be a positive integer. I am interested in asymptotics for the number of imaginary quadratic discriminants $d$ such that
$p$ does not divide the conductor of $d$,
$p$ splits ...
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On a summation in "Artin's conjecture for primitive roots" by Heath-Brown
This is a question on the paper: D. R. Heath-Brown. Artin's conjecture for primitive roots. Quarterly J. Math. 37 (1): 27–38, 1986.
At the beginning of the proof of his main theorem on page 35, Heath-...
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Repeated values of a monomial
Let $H,M\geq 1$ and let $h_0$ and $m_0$ be fixed integers with $(h_0,m_0)\in [H,2H]\times[M,2M]$. Let $\alpha$ be a positive real number. I'm trying to find an upper found for the number of integer ...
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Euler's proof of $\frac{\pi}{6}=1-\frac{1}{2}-\frac{1}{3}+\frac{1}{4}+\frac{1}{5}+\frac{1}{6}-\cdots$
Euler proved
$$\frac{\pi}{6}=1-\frac{1}{2}-\frac{1}{3}+\frac{1}{4}+\frac{1}{5}+\frac{1}{6}-\cdots$$
where the reasoning of the signs thus is prepared, so that of the second may be had as $-$, prime ...
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Does the mean ratio of the largest prime factor in prime gaps to the lower bound of the gap converge?
Posting in MO since this questions has been unanswered in MSE for 3 months.
Let $p_n$ be the $n$-th prime and $q_n$ be largest among all the prime factors of the composite numbers between $p_n$ and $...
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Motivation behind a result of Munshi on nonvanishing of L-functions in families of elliptic curves
In this article in Compositio (2011), Munshi proves a mean value result for
$$ \sum_{d} r(d) \Lambda^{(l)}(1/2,f,\chi_d) F(d/Y),$$
where here $f$ is a primitive holomorphic form of level $q$ with ...
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Is $1 = \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{\pi(p_n^2)-n+2}{p_n^3-p_n}$ , where $\pi$ denotes the prime counting function and $p_n$ denotes the $n$-th prime?
Is
$$1 = \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{\pi(p_n^2)-n+2}{p_n^3-p_n},$$
where $\pi$ denotes the prime counting function and $p_n$ denotes the $n$-th prime?
Context:
This question came out as a result in ...
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Relationship between two types of partition functions
Referring to this unanswered question on MS, I'm posting the same question here:
For $s\in \mathbb{C},\Re(s)>1 $, consider:
$$\prod_{k=1}^{\infty}\prod_{n=2}^{\infty}\frac{1}{1-n^{-ks}}= \prod_{k=1}...
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Series with the smallest number whose square is divisible by $n$
I was looking into this sequence. And I'm particularly interested in the asymptotic behavior of the following series (which is stated on the site) $$\sum_{k=1}^n \frac{1}{a(k)} \sim \frac{3(\log n)^2}...
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Implications for large sums of roots of unity
I have some coefficients $(a_n)_{n \leq N} \subset \mathbb{R}$ such that $a_n \geq 0$ and their average value is one, i.e. $\frac{1}{N} \sum_{n \leq N} a_n = 1$. Suppose that
$$ \Bigl| \sum_{n \leq N} ...
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Non-vanishing of archimedean integral representations
Let $\psi$ denote a non-trivial additive character of $\mathbb{R}$ and $n$ be a positive integer. Let $(\pi,V)$ and $(\pi',V')$ be two irreducible generic Casselman-Wallach representations of $G_n=\...
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Abscissa of convergence of the $\tau$ Dirichlet series
Define the $\tau$ Dirichlet series $L$ by
$$L(s)=\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{\tau (n)}{n^s}$$
where $\tau$ is defined by
$$q\prod_{n=1}^\infty (1-q^n)^{24}=\sum_{n=1}^\infty \tau (n)q^n$$
where $|q|\lt 1$....
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Approximating $\zeta^{(r)}(s)$ by a sum
Let $\eta:[0,\infty)\to [0,\infty)$ be compactly supported, continuous and piecewise $C^1$, with its derivative $\eta'$ being of bounded variation. It is completely unsurprising that one can prove (...
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Is the sum of the reciprocals of the products of pairs of coprime positive integers and their sums equal to 2?
Does the following hold?:
$$
\sum_{a, b \in \mathbb{N}^+, \ \gcd(a,b) = 1} \frac{1}{ab(a+b)} \ = \ 2
$$
Numerical computations suggest this may hold, but on the other hand
it would be quite ...
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The Stable Set Conjecture
A set $\mathcal S$ of positive integers is called stable if for every fixed positive integer $d$, the relation
$$n\in \mathcal S \iff dn\in \mathcal S$$
holds for almost all positive integers $n$. ...
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Ergodic theory applied to number theory
I am interested in the links between Ergodic Theory and Number Theory. Can anyone give some references for papers to read in this field? Any open problems? Or ideas where it may be applicable in NT?
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Can every integer be written as a sum of squares of primes?
This question is mainly inspired from a different problem I was working on.
Is there a value of $k$ such that, for each $n\in \mathbb N$, the equation
$$\sum_{i=1}^{k}x_i^2=n$$
is solvable in $x_1,\...
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Density of primes $p$ where $p-1$ has a prime factor exceeding $p^{2/3}$
Fouvry proved* that primes $p$ such that the greatest prime factor, $q$, of $p-1$ is greater than $p^{2/3}$ have positive density in the primes. (The sequence is A073024 in the OEIS.)
Are there any ...
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Asymptotic for Ramanujan's $\tau$-function
The Ramanujan's $\tau$-function is defined by
$$q\prod_{n=1}^\infty (1-q^n)^{24}=\sum_{n=1}^\infty \tau (n)q^n$$
where $|q|\lt 1$.
Is there a known asymptotic formula for $\tau (n)$ or $|\tau (n)|$, i....
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Non-Schwartz test functions for the explicit formula for L-functions
The statements of the explicit formula for L-functions that I am aware of require the test function to be a Schwartz function (see, e.g., equation (4.11) in Section 4 of Low lying zeros of families of ...
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The exponential sum of $\omega (n)$
Let $\omega (n)$ be the number of (distinct) prime divisors of $n$ $$\omega (n)=\sum _{p|n}1$$ and let $S(a/q)$ be its exponential sum $$\sum _{n\leq x}\omega (n)e(na/q).$$
Question 1: Can anyone give ...
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Limit of scaled infinite sum with Dirichlet characters modulo 4: is it zero?
I am trying to get an asymptotic formula such as
$$ L_4(s, n) \sim L_4(s) + \rho_n(s)\Lambda_n + \frac{\alpha(s)}{\sqrt{n}} + \frac{\beta(s)}{\sqrt{n\log n}}+\cdots$$
where $L_4(s, n)$ is the first $n$...
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Does the set of Goldbach numbers have positive density?
We say that an integer $n > 1$ is a Goldbach number if $n$ is the sum of two primes. The famous Goldbach conjecture says that every even integer greater than $2$ is Goldbach.
Consider the following ...
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On the square mean of Fourier coefficients of cusp forms
I have a question which may look naive for many experts here:
For any primitive holomorphic form $f$ of level $M$ ($M\in \mathbb{N}$), whether or not one has the lower bound that:
$$\sum_{X<n\le 2X}...
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Are some numbers more equidistributed than others?
Weyl's theorem says that $n\alpha$ is equidistributed mod 1 for any irrational $\alpha$. One corollary is that, if I consider the fractional part $\{n\alpha\}$ for $n \leq N$, and look at the indices ...
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Bound on Von Mangoldt for automorphic L-functions
Following the notation in Iwaniec+Kowalski, let $L(f,s)$ be an L-function. Denote
$$\frac{L'}{L}(f,s)=\sum_{n\ge1} \Lambda_f(n)n^{-s} $$
In terms of the local roots of the Euler product:
$$ \Lambda_f(...