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STRONGLY $q$-ADDITIVE FUNCTIONS AND DISTRIBUTIONAL PROPERTIES OF THE LARGEST PRIME FACTOR

Part of: Elementary number theory Exponential sums and character sums Multiplicative number theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2015

M. AMRI ,
M. MKAOUAR  and
W. WANNES
M. AMRI
Affiliation:
Faculté des Sciences de Sfax, BP 1171, Sfax 3000, Tunisie email m.amri@fss.rnu.tn
M. MKAOUAR*
Affiliation:
Faculté des Sciences de Sfax, BP 1171, Sfax 3000, Tunisie email mohamed.mkaouar@fss.rnu.tn
W. WANNES
Affiliation:
Faculté des Sciences de Sfax, BP 1171, Sfax 3000, Tunisie email w.wannes@fss.rnu.tn
*
✉mohamed.mkaouar@fss.rnu.tn
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Abstract

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Let $P(n)$ denote the largest prime factor of an integer $n\geq 2$. In this paper, we study the distribution of the sequence $\{f(P(n)):n\geq 1\}$ over the set of congruence classes modulo an integer $b\geq 2$, where $f$ is a strongly $q$-additive integer-valued function (that is, $f(aq^{j}+b)=f(a)+f(b),$ with $(a,b,j)\in \mathbb{N}^{3}$, $0\leq b<q^{j}$). We also show that the sequence $\{{\it\alpha}P(n):n\geq 1,f(P(n))\equiv a\;(\text{mod}~b)\}$ is uniformly distributed modulo 1 if and only if ${\it\alpha}\in \mathbb{R}\!\setminus \!\mathbb{Q}$.

Keywords

largest prime factorq-additive functionuniform distribution modulo 1

MSC classification

Primary: 11A63: Radix representation; digital problems
Secondary: 11L03: Trigonometric and exponential sums, general 11N05: Distribution of primes

Information

Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 93 , Issue 2 , April 2016 , pp. 177 - 185
Copyright
© 2015 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

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