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Vinod Sivadasan

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arXiv2023

On an identity of Delange and its application to Cohen-Ramanujan expansions

Srinivasa Ramanujan provided Fourier series expansions of certain arithmetical functions in terms of the exponential sum defined by $c_q(n)=\sum\limits_{\substack{{m=1}\\(m,q)=1}}^{q}e^{\frac{2 πimn}{q}}$. Later, H. Delange derived the bound $\sum\limits_{q|k}|c_q(n)|\leq n\, 2^{ω(k)}$ and gave a sufficient condition for such expansions to exist. A. Grytczuk gave an exact value for this bound, and derived a converse implication of the absolute convergence stated by H. Delange. We here show that these results have natural generalizations in terms of the Cohen-Ramanujan sum $c_q^{(s)}(n)$ defined by E. Cohen in [\emph{Duke Mathematical Journal, 16(85-90):2, 1949}]. We derive a bound as well as exact value for $\sum\limits_{q|k}|c_q^{(s)}(n)|$ and provide a sufficient condition for the Cohen-Ramanujan expansions to exist.

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arXiv2023

A reciprocity theorem for the Cohen-Ramanujan sums and its application to Cohen-Ramanujan expansions in the second variable

For an arithmetical function $f$, its Ramanujan expansion is a series expansion in the form $f(n)=\sum\limits_{k=1}^{\infty}a(k) c_k(n)$ where $a(k)$ are complex numbers and $c_k(n):= \sum\limits_{\substack{m=1\\(m, k)=1}}^{k}e^{\frac{2πimn}{k}}$ is the Ramanujan sum. Here we prove a reciprocity result on Cohen-Ramanujan sums $c_k^s(n) :=\sum\limits_{\substack{{h=1}\\(h,k^s)_s=1}}^{k^s}e^{\frac{2πi n h}{k^s}}$ to change the position of $k$ and $n$ in a twisted function and use it to prove that for certain arithmetical functions $f$, Cohen-Ramanujan series expansions in the form $\sum\limits_{k=1}^{\infty}a(k) c_k^{(s)}(n)$ exist if and only if expansions in the form $\sum\limits_{k=1}^{\infty}b(k/n) c_n^{(s)}(k)$ exist.

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