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Irrationality of Power Series for Various Number Theoretic Functions

Authors :
Florian Luca
Igor E. Shparlinski
William D. Banks
Source :
manuscripta mathematica. 117:183-197
Publication Year :
2005
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2005.

Abstract

We study formal power series whose coefficients are taken to be a variety of number theoretic functions, such as the Euler, Mobius and divisor functions. We show that these power series are irrational over ℤ[X], and we obtain lower bounds on the precision of their rational approximations.

Details

ISSN :
14321785 and 00252611
Volume :
117
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
manuscripta mathematica
Accession number :
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