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Speaker:
Ana Zumalacarregui
Zugehörigkeit:
U. Autónoma de Madrid
Datum:
Mit, 2011-12-07 14:15 - 15:15
Location:
MPIM Lecture Hall
Parent event:
Number theory lunch seminar It is well known that the classical Chebyshev's function $\psi(n)=\sum_{m<n}\Lambda(m)$ has an alternative expression in terms of the least common multiple of the first n integers:$\psi(n)=\text{log lcm} (1,2,\dots, n)$.
Here we generalize this function by considering, for a set $\mathcal A\subseteq [1,n]$, the quantity $\psi(\mathcal A):=\text{log lcm} \{a\,:\, a\in\mathcal A\}$ and we ask ourselves about its asymptotic behavior.
We will focus on sets given by $\mathcal A_f=\{ f(1), f(2), ..., f(n)\}$ for some polynomial with integer coefficients. We will also discuss the case where the set is chosen at random in $[1,n]$ with prescribed size.
