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WHEN DOES THE BOMBIERI–VINOGRADOV THEOREM HOLD FOR A GIVEN MULTIPLICATIVE FUNCTION?

Part of:Multiplicative number theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2018

ANDREW GRANVILLE and
XUANCHENG SHAO
ANDREW GRANVILLE
Affiliation:
Département de mathématiques et de statistique, Université de Montréal, CP 6128 succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC H3C 3J7, CanadaDepartment of Mathematics, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK; andrew@dms.umontreal.ca
XUANCHENG SHAO
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Kentucky, 715 Patterson Office Tower, Lexington, KY 40502, USA; Xuancheng.Shao@uky.edu

Abstract

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Let $f$ and $g$ be 1-bounded multiplicative functions for which $f\ast g=1_{.=1}$. The Bombieri–Vinogradov theorem holds for both $f$ and $g$ if and only if the Siegel–Walfisz criterion holds for both $f$ and $g$, and the Bombieri–Vinogradov theorem holds for $f$ restricted to the primes.

MSC classification

Primary:11N56: Rate of growth of arithmetic functions

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Research Article
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Forum of Mathematics, Sigma , Volume 6 , 2018, e15
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