Asymptotic approximations to the Hardy-Littlewood function

Details Asymptotic approximations to the Hardy-Littlewood function Asymptotic approximations to the Hardy-Littlewood function

2012-04-09

arxiv.org/abs/1204.2012v1

Mathematics

Numerical Analysis

16 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables

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The function $Q(x):=\sum_{n\ge 1} (1/n) \sin(x/n)$ was introduced by Hardy and Littlewood [10] in their study of Lambert summability, and since then it has attracted attention of many researchers. In particular, this function has made a surprising appearance in the recent disproof by Alzer, Berg and Koumandos [1] of a conjecture by Clark and Ismail [2]. More precisely, Alzer et. al. [1] have shown that the Clark and Ismail conjecture is true if and only if $Q(x)\ge -\pi/2$ for all $x>0$. It is known that $Q(x)$ is unbounded in the domain $x \in (0,\infty)$ from above and below, which disproves the Clark and Ismail conjecture, and at the same time raises a natural question of whether we can exhibit at least one point $x$ for which $Q(x) < -\pi/2$. This turns out to be a surprisingly hard problem, which leads to an interesting and non-trivial question of how to approximate $Q(x)$ for very large values of $x$. In this paper we continue the work started by Gautschi in [7] and develop several approximations to $Q(x)$ for large values of $x$. We use these approximations to find an explicit value of $x$ for which $Q(x)<-\pi/2$.

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