For k = 1,2,... let $H_k$ denote the harmonic number ${\sum }_{j=1}^{k}1/j$. In this paper we establish some new congruences involving harmonic numbers. For example, we show that for any prime p > 3 we have ${\sum }_{k=1}^{p-1}\left(H_k\right)/\left(k{2}^k\right)\equiv 7/24p{B}_{p-3}\left(modp²\right)$, ${\sum }_{k=1}^{p-1}\left(H_{k,2}\right)/\left(k{2}^k\right)\equiv -3/8B_{p-3}\left(modp\right)$, and ${\sum }_{k=1}^{p-1}\left(H{²}_{k,2n}\right)/\left(k^{2n}\right)\equiv (\left(\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{6n+1}{2n-1}\right)+n)/(6n+1)p{B}_{p-1-6n}\left(modp²\right)$ for any positive integer n < (p-1)/6, where B₀,B₁,B₂,... are Bernoulli numbers, and $H_{k,m}:={\sum }_{j=1}^{k}1/\left(j^m\right)$.

The classical system of functional equations      $1/n{\sum }_{\nu =0}^{n-1}F((x+\nu )/n)=n^{-s}F\left(x\right)$ (n ∈ ℕ) with s ∈ ℂ, investigated for instance by Artin (1931), Yoder (1975), Kubert (1979), and Milnor (1983), is extended to      $1/n{\sum }_{\nu =0}^{n-1}F((x+\nu )/n)={\sum }_{d=1}^{\infty }{\lambda }_n\left(d\right)F\left(dx\right)$ (n ∈ ℕ) with complex valued sequences ${\lambda }_n$. This leads to new results on the periodic integrable and the aperiodic continuous solutions F:ℝ₊ → ℂ interrelating the theory of functional equations and the theory of arithmetic functions.

We present asymptotic representations for certain reciprocal sums of Fibonacci numbers and of Lucas numbers as a parameter tends to a critical value. As limiting cases of our results, we obtain Euler’s formulas for values of zeta functions.

Nous étudions le comportement asymptotique d’une classe de suites mahlériennes dont les séries génératrices sont des produits infinis. Un exemple caractéristique est celui de l’estimation des coefficients de Taylor de ${\prod }_{k=0}^{+\infty }{(1+z^{2^k}+z^{2^{k+1}})}^{-1}$, voisin des partitions binaires étudiées par De Bruijn. Le résultat obtenu illustre un cas typique d’une classification naturelle des suites mahlériennes. Les techniques utilisées, transformation de Mellin ou méthode du col, ressortissent à la théorie analytique des nombres et à...