On a conjecture of Narkiewicz about functions with non-decreasing normal order
We study the concentration of the distribution of an additive function f when the sequence of prime values of f decays fast and has good spacing properties. In particular, we prove a conjecture by Erdős and Kátai on the concentration of when c > 1.
Given an integer base and a completely -additive arithmetic function taking integer values, we deduce an asymptotic expression for the counting functionunder a mild restriction on the values of . When , the base sum of digits function, the integers counted by are the so-called base Niven numbers, and our result provides a generalization of the asymptotic known in that case.