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Summer 2012 On the estimation of nonlinear twists of the Liouville function
Ayyadurai Sankaranarayanan
Illinois J. Math. 56(2): 551-569 (Summer 2012). DOI: 10.1215/ijm/1385129964

Abstract

We prove a nontrivial upper bound for the quantity (with $\mathbf{e}(z)=e^{2\pi iz}$),

\[\biggl\vert \sum_{X\le n\le 2X}\lambda (n)\mathbf{e}(\alpha{\sqrt{n}} )\biggr\vert ,\]

where $\alpha$ is any nonzero real number. This upper bound is an improvement of the earlier known results.

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Ayyadurai Sankaranarayanan. "On the estimation of nonlinear twists of the Liouville function." Illinois J. Math. 56 (2) 551 - 569, Summer 2012. https://doi.org/10.1215/ijm/1385129964

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Published: Summer 2012
First available in Project Euclid: 22 November 2013

zbMATH: 1300.11084
MathSciNet: MR3161340
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1215/ijm/1385129964

Subjects:
Primary: 11M
Secondary: 11M06

Rights: Copyright © 2012 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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