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What is known about the average growth rate of the denominators of $n$ Egyptian fractions summing to one?
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In the following question posted here on MO and over at MSE, user Noah Schweber asks about a weighted count on Egyptian fraction representations (EFRs). To that end, he defines the ...
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Is it possible to bound Mertens function $M(n)$ from an inclusion-exclusion formulation?
In this post I proposed a formulation of Mertens function $M(n)$ using the inclusion-exclusion principle, as follows:
$$M(n)=-\pi\left(n\right)+\left(\sum_{p_{i}<\sqrt{n}}\pi\left(\lfloor\frac{n}{...
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Mertens Bound and the Riemann Hypothesis
Let $M(x)$ denote the Mertens function ($M(x)=\sum_{i=1}^{x}\mu(i)$ where $\mu(i)$ is the Möbius function) and let $\Lambda(i)$ denote the Mangoldt function ($\Lambda(i)$ equals $\log(p)$ if $i=p^{m}$ ...
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Restricted divisor summatory function
I have a problem that boils down to prove that the succession $\{a_n\}$ tends to infinity, where
$$a_n:=1+\sum_{0\leq j<n}D_{2j+1}(n-j)$$
and $D_{m}(n)$ is the number of divisors $d>1$ of $n$ ...
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Lower bound of exponential sum
This question is a close cousin of the following:
Lower bound on exponential sums
Let $\phi:[0,1]\to \mathbb R$ be a smooth function with $\frac 1 {10}<\phi'< 10, \frac 1 {10}<\phi''< 10$. ...
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An interesting sequence of numbers arising from the Riemann hypothesis
A very good coincidence occurred today with me. While just plotting random functions in Mathematica, I entered this command:
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Lower bound on exponential sums
Let $k\geq 2$. Consider the following norm of exponenetial sum:
$$
I(N,p,k)=\int_0^1\int_0^1 \left|\sum_{n=0}^N e^{2\pi i (n x+n^k y)}\right|^p dxdy.
$$
Bourgain mentioned on Page 118 of
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What do square roots as minimums have to do with Harmonic numbers?
In an earlier question where I conjectured (and GH from MO confirmed) that the von Mangoldt function is the limit at s=1 of a certain Dirichlet series:
$$\Lambda(m)=\lim_{s\to 1+}\zeta(s)\sum_{d\mid ...
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lower bound for Perron-Frobenius degree of a Perron number
A Perron number is an algebraic number which is greater than one in absolute value and is greater than all of its Galois conjugates in absolute value as well. Lind's theorem states that any Perron ...
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A lower bound on the $L^2$ norm of a Dirichlet polynomial
The Question. Suppose $0 < \alpha < \beta$ are fixed, and $a_n$ is an arbitrary sequence of real numbers. Is it known how to bound from below
\begin{equation*}
\int_0^{T} \Big| \sum_{\alpha T &...
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Lower bounds on the error term of the prime number theorem
Are there any lower bounds on the error term for the prime number theorem, or in other words, is there a nontrivial $f$ s.t.
$$f(x)\ll |\psi(x) - x|$$
where $\psi$ is the Chebyshev function.
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lower and upper bound for $\sum_{k=1}^n \frac{(-1)^{\Omega(k)}}k$?
Are there known any lower and upper bounds for
$$
\sum_{k=1}^n \frac{(-1)^{\Omega(k)}}k,
$$
where $\Omega(n)$ is the number of prime factors counting multiplicities of $n$?
Or at least is it known ...
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Quantitative lower bounds related to Zhang's theorem on bounded gaps
Let $\mathcal{H}=\left\{ h_{i}\right\} _{i=1}^{k}$ be an admissible set, and define $$\pi_{\mathcal{H}}(x)=\left|\left\{ n\leq x\ :\ \exists\ i,j\leq k,\ i\neq j\ \text{such that both }n+h_{i},\ n+h_{...
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Lower bound for Euler's totient for almost all integers
Let $\varphi(n)$ be the Euler's totient function. It is well know that $\liminf_{n \to \infty} \frac{\varphi(n)}{n / \log \log n} = e^{-\gamma}$, so that for $\varepsilon > 0$ it results $\frac{\...
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Lower bounds for linear forms of logarithms (a la Baker)?
Let $\lambda_1$, $\lambda_2$, and $a$ be three fixed complex algebraic
numbers.
For a given integer $n$, write
$\Theta(n) = \arg(a \lambda_1^n + \lambda_2^n)$.
Assuming $\Theta(n)$ is not zero, I am ...
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