Periodic, Multiplicative Number-Theoretical Functions.
Integer sequences of the form , where 1 < c < 2, can be locally approximated by sequences of the form ⌊nα+β⌋ in a very good way. Following this approach, we are led to an estimate of the difference , which measures the deviation of the mean value of φ on the subsequence from the expected value, by an expression involving exponential sums. As an application we prove that for 1 < c ≤ 1.42 the subsequence of the Thue-Morse sequence indexed by attains both of its values with asymptotic...
By using polylogarithm series, we define “poly-Bernoulli numbers” which generalize classical Bernoulli numbers. We derive an explicit formula and a duality theorem for these numbers, together with a von Staudt-type theorem for di-Bernoulli numbers and another proof of a theorem of Vandiver.
We investigate infinite families of integral quadratic polynomials {fk (X)} k∈N and show that, for a fixed k ∈ N and arbitrary X ∈ N, the period length of the simple continued fraction expansion of √fk (X) is constant. Furthermore, we show that the period lengths of √fk (X) go to infinity with k. For each member of the families involved, we show how to determine, in an easy fashion, the fundamental unit of the underlying quadratic field. We also demonstrate how the simple continued fraction ex-...