Questions tagged [multiplicative-number-theory]
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Questions about a certain set of primes
Let $A$ be a set of prime numbers, generated by the following procedure. Let $A_0 = \{2\}$. Let $A_n$ be generated by setting $x_n = (\prod_{p_i \in A_{n-1}}p_i) + 1$, and adding all the prime factors ...
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Uniformity in Wirsing's Mean Value Theorems
In two important papers of Wirsing, namely "Das asymptotische Verhalten von Summen über multiplikative Funktionen" (1961) and its follow up (1967), several results on mean values of multiplicative ...
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Existence of equation about the product of the divisor sum function
Let $\sigma_k(n)$ be the sum of the $k$-th powers of the positive divisors of $n$ and $\mu(n)$ be the Möbius function.
As Arithmetic function - Wikipedia mentioned, there is an equation that $$\...
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Math software / language for analytic / multiplicative number theory
What software/languages are the most used to do computations in analytic / multiplicative number theory?
I use Python, Maple, etc., but each time I want to compute expressions like, for $n$ with an ...
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Is it possible to find all integer functions which satisfy $f(m!+n!)\mid f(m!)+f(n!)$ and $m+n \mid f(m)+f(n)$?
I'm interesting to know more about multiplicative property of integer functions then I'd like to ask this humble question:
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Is it possible to find all integer functions which satisfy $f(m!+...
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A question about $(0,1]$-valued multiplicative functions
Suppose $f:\mathbb{N}\to [0,1]$ is a multiplicative function (i.e. $f(nm)=f(n)f(m)$ whenever $m$ and $n$ are coprime). Suppose $f$ has non-zero mean, which means
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\lim_{N\to\infty}\frac{1}{N} \sum_{...
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The multiplicative group generated by shifted primes
I am asking for references about the following problem.
In particular, it is still open? If not, what is the state of the art result?
Problem 1. Let $\Gamma$ be the multiplicative subgroup of $\...
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All all hypo-multiplicative functions linear combinations of quasi-multiplicative functions?
A function is called quasi-multiplicative by many authors if $f(m)f(n)=f(1)f(mn)$, a slight generalization of multiplicativity. (Basically a multiplicative function times a constant is a quasi-...
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Least prime in an arithmetic progression and the Selberg sieve
My question concerns a technical step in the proof of Linnik's theorem on the least prime in an arithmetic progression, as presented in Chapter 18 of Iwaniec-Kowalski: Analytic number theory.
The ...
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Linear combination of multiplicative functions
Carlitz showed necessary and sufficient conditions for an arithmetic function to be a linear combination of two multiplicative functions. He mentions the possibility of generalizing to $k$ ...
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Number of biquadrates mod n
Is there an explicit formula for the number of fourth powers mod n?
Finch & Sebah [1] give theorems, partially folklore, for squares and cubes mod n, but I don't know of a similar formula for ...
