We consider logarithmic averages, over friable integers, of non-negative multiplicative functions. Under logarithmic, one-sided or two-sided hypotheses, we obtain sharp estimates that improve upon known results in the literature regarding both the quality of the error term and the range of validity. The one-sided hypotheses correspond to classical sieve assumptions. They are applied to provide an effective form of the Johnsen–Selberg prime power sieve.

We develop and study the epsilon factor of a ‘local system’ of p-adic coefficients over the spectrum of a complete discrete valuation field K with finite residue field of characteristic p>0. In the equal characteristic case, we define the epsilon factor of an overconvergent F-isocrystal over Spec(K), using the p-adic monodromy theorem. We conjecture a global formula, the p-adic product formula, analogous to Deligne’s formula for étale ℓ-adic sheaves proved by Laumon, which explains the importance of this local invariant. Namely, for an overconvergent F-isocrystal over an open subset of a projective smooth curve X, the constant of the functional equation of the L-series is expressed as a product of the local epsilon factors at the points of X. We prove the conjecture for rank-one overconvergent F-isocrystals and for finite unit-root overconvergent F-isocrystals. In the mixed characteristic case, we study the behavior of the epsilon factor by deformation to the field of norms.

Let σA(n)=∣{(a,a′)∈A2:a+a′=n}∣, where and A is a subset of . Erdös and Turán conjectured that, for any basis A of , σA(n) is unbounded. In 1990, Ruzsa constructed a basis for which σA(n) is bounded in the square mean. In this paper, based on Ruzsa’s method, we show that there exists a basis A of satisfying for large enough N.

Sikora has given results which confirm the analogy between number fields and 3-manifolds. However, he has given proofs of his results which are very different in the arithmetic and in the topological case. In this paper, we show how to provide a unified approach to the results in the two cases. For this we introduce an equivariant cohomology which satisfies a localization theorem. In particular, we obtain a satisfactory explanation for the coincidences between Sikora’s formulas which leads us to clarify and to extend the dictionary of arithmetic topology.

In this article, a discrete mean value of the derivative of the Riemann zeta function is computed. This mean value will be important for several applications concerning the size of ζ′(ρ), where ζ(s) is the Riemann zeta function and ρ is a non-trivial zero of ζ(s).

Let X ⊂ ℙN be a geometrically integral cubic hypersurface defined over ℚ, with singular locus of dimension at most dim X − 4. The main result in this paper is a proof of the fact that X(ℚ) contains OɛX (BdimX + ɛ) points of height at most B.

A new lower bound is established for the distance between two roots of an integer polynomial, and a new upper bound for the distance between a given real number and the set of zeros of an integer polynomial. The latter result is applied to improve a metrical result in Diophantine approximation.

Let E be a level 1, vector valued Eisenstein series of half-integral weight, normalized so that the coefficients are all in ℤ. It is shown that there is a level one vector valued cusp form f with the same weight as E and with coefficients in ℤ, which is congruent to E modulo the constant term of E.

We study Rubin’s variant of the p-adic Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for CM elliptic curves concerning certain special values of the Katz two-variable p-adic L-function that lie outside the range of p-adic interpolation.

We formulate an explicit conjecture for the leading term at s=1 of the equivariant Dedekind zeta-function that is associated to a Galois extension of number fields. We show that this conjecture refines well-known conjectures of Stark and Chinburg, and we use the functional equation of the zeta-function to compare it to a natural conjecture for the leading term at s=0.

We assume the validity of the equivariant Tamagawa number conjecture for a certain motive attached to an abelian extension K/k of number fields, and we calculate the Fitting ideal of the dual of clK− as a Galois module, under mild extra hypotheses on K/k. This builds on concepts and results of Tate, Burns, Ritter and Weiss. If k is the field of rational numbers, our results are unconditional.

Let E be a CM number field and let S be a finite set of primes of E containing the primes dividing a given prime number l and another prime u split above the maximal totally real subfield of E. If ES denotes a maximal algebraic extension of E which is unramified outside S, we show that the natural maps are injective. We discuss generalizations of this result.

For any abelian group G and any function f: G → G we define a commutative binary operation or ‘multiplication’ on G in terms of f. We give necessary and sufficient conditions on f for G to extend to a commutative ring with the new multiplication. In the case where G is an elementary abelian p–group of odd order, we classify those functions which extend G to a ring and show, under an equivalence relation we call weak isomorphism, that there are precisely six distinct classes of rings constructed using this method with additive group the elementary abelian p–group of odd order p2.

In this paper we consider systems of diagonal forms with integer coefficients in which each form has a different degree. Every such system has a nontrivial zero in every p-adic field Qp provided that the number of variables is sufficiently large in terms of the degrees. While the number of variables required grows at least exponentially as the degrees and number of forms increase, it is known that if p is sufficiently large then only a small polynomial bound is required to ensure zeros in Qp. In this paper we explore the question of how small we can make the prime p and still have a polynomial bound. In particular, we show that we may allow p to be smaller than the largest of the degrees.

In this paper we study the size of the value set of the Carmichael λ-functions.

Let P denote the set of prime numbers, and let P(n) denote the largest prime factor of an integer n > 1. We show that, for every real number , there exists a constant c(η) > 1 such that for every integer a ≠ 0, the set has relative asymptotic density one in the set of all prime numbers. Moreover, in the range , one can take c(η) = 1+ε for any fixed ε > 0. In particular, our results imply that for every real number 0.486 ≤ b.thetav; ≤ 0.531, the relation P(q − a) ≍ qθ holds for infinitely many primes q. We use this result to derive a lower bound on the number of distinct prime divisor of the value of the Carmichael function taken on a product of shifted primes. Finally, we study iterates of the map q ↦ P(q - a) for a > 0, and show that for infinitely many primes q, this map can be iterated at least (log logq)1+o(1) times before it terminates.

We consider the weak convergence of the set of strongly additive functions f(q) with rational argument q. It is assumed that f(p) and f(1/p) ∈ {0, 1} for all primes. We obtain necessary and sufficient conditions of the convergence to the limit distribution. The proof is based on the method of factorial moments. Sieve results, and Halász's and Ruzsa's inequalities are used. We present a few examples of application of the given results to some sets of fractions.

We prove that the p-adic zeta-function constructed by Kubota and Leopoldt has the Dirichlet series expansion Where the convergence of the first summation is for the p-adic topology. The proof of this formula relates the values of p(–s, ω1+σ) for s ∈ Zp, with a branch of the ‘sth-fractional derivative’, of a suitable generating function.

This paper treats the L2-discrepancy of digital (0, 1)-sequences over ℤ2, and gives conditions on the generator matrix of such a sequence which guarantee minimal possible order of L2-discrepancy of the generated sequence. The existence is proved for the first time of digital (0; 1)-sequences over ℤ2 with L2-discrepancy of order . This order is best possible by a result of K. Roth. The existence proof is constructive.

We introduce a class of polynomials which induce a permutation on the set of polynomials in one variable of degree less than m over a finite field. We call then Am-permutation polynomials. We also give three criteria to characterize such polynomials.