Elementary methods in number theory, melvyn b nathanson

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195) Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 0-387-98912-9 (hardcover: alk paper) Number theory I Title II Series QA241.N3475 2000 512'.7—dc21 99-42812 ©2000 Melvyn B Nathanson All rights reserved This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden The use of general descriptive names, trade names, trademarks, etc., in this publication, even if the former are not epecially identified, is not to be taken as a sign that such names, as understood by the Trade Marks and Merchandise Marks Act, may be accordingly used freely by anyone ISBN 0-387-98912-9 Springer-Verlag New York Berlin Heidelberg SPIN 10742484 To Paul Erd˝os, 1913–1996, a friend and collaborator for 25 years, and a master of elementary methods in number theory Preface Arithmetic is where numbers run across your mind looking for the answer Arithmetic is like numbers spinning in your head faster and faster until you blow up with the answer KABOOM!!! Then you sit back down and begin the next problem Alexander Nathanson [99] This book, Elementary Methods in Number Theory, is divided into three parts Part I, “A first course in number theory,” is a basic introduction to elementary number theory for undergraduate and graduate students with no previous knowledge of the subject The only prerequisites are a little calculus and algebra, and the imagination and perseverance to follow a mathematical argument The main topics are divisibility and congruences We prove Gauss’s law of quadratic reciprocity, and we determine the moduli for which primitive roots exist There is an introduction to Fourier analysis on finite abelian groups, with applications to Gauss sums A chapter is devoted to the abc conjecture, a simply stated but profound assertion about the relationship between the additive and multiplicative properties of integers that is a major unsolved problem in number theory The “first course” contains all of the results in number theory that are needed to understand the author’s graduate texts, Additive Number Theory: The Classical Bases [104] and Additive Number Theory: Inverse Problems and the Geometry of Sumsets [103] viii Preface The second and third parts of this book are more difficult than the “first course,” and require an undergraduate course in advanced calculus or real analysis Part II is concerned with prime numbers, divisors, and other topics in multiplicative number theory After deriving properties of the basic arithmetic functions, we obtain important results about divisor functions, and we prove the classical theorems of Chebyshev and Mertens on the distribution of prime numbers Finally, we give elementary proofs of two of the most famous results in mathematics, the prime number theorem, which states that the number of primes up to x is asymptotically equal to x/ log x, and Dirichlet’s theorem on the infinitude of primes in arithmetic progressions Part III, “Three problems in additive number theory,” is an introduction to some classical problems about the additive structure of the integers The first additive problem is Waring’s problem, the statement that, for every integer k ≥ 2, every nonnegative integer can be represented as the sum of a bounded number of kth powers More generally, let f (x) = ak xk + ak−1 xk−1 + · · · + a0 be an integer-valued polynomial with ak > such that the integers in the set A(f ) = {f (x) : x = 0, 1, 2, } have no common divisor greater than one Waring’s problem for polynomials states that every sufficiently large integer can be represented as the sum of a bounded number of elements of A(f ) The second additive problem is sums of squares For every s ≥ we denote by Rs (n) the number of representations of the integer n as a sum of s squares, that is, the number of solutions of the equation n = x21 + · · · + x2s in integers x1 , , xs The shape of the function Rs (n) depends on the parity of s In this book we derive formulae for Rs (n) for certain even values of s, in particular, for s = 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 The third additive problem is the asymptotics of partition functions A partition of a positive integer n is a representation of n in the form n = a1 + · · · + ak , where the parts a1 , , ak are positive integers and a1 ≥ · · · ≥ ak The partition function p(n) counts the number of partitions of n More generally, if A is any nonempty set of positive integers, the partition function pA (n) counts the number of partitions of n with parts belonging to the set A We shall determine the asymptotic growth of p(n) and, more generally, of pA (n) for any set A of integers of positive density This book contains many examples and exercises By design, some of the exercises require old-fashioned manipulations and computations with pencil and paper A few exercises require a calculator Number theory, after all, begins with the positive integers, and students should get to know and love them This book is also an introduction to the subject of “elementary methods in analytic number theory.” The theorems in this book are simple statements about integers, but the standard proofs require contour integration, Preface ix modular functions, estimates of exponential sums, and other tools of complex analysis This is not unfair In mathematics, when we want to prove a theorem, we may use any method The rule is “no holds barred.” It is OK to use complex variables, algebraic geometry, cohomology theory, and the kitchen sink to obtain a proof But once a theorem is proved, once we know that it is true, particularly if it is a simply stated and easily understood fact about the natural numbers, then we may want to find another proof, one that uses only “elementary arguments” from number theory Elementary proofs are not better than other proofs, nor are they necessarily easy Indeed, they are often technically difficult, but they satisfy the aesthetic boundary condition that they use only arithmetic arguments This book contains elementary proofs of some deep results in number theory We give the Erd˝os-Selberg proof of the prime number theorem, Linnik’s solution of Waring’s problem, Liouville’s still mysterious method to obtain explicit formulae for the number of representations of an integer as the sum of an even number of squares, and Erd˝os’s method to obtain asymptotic estimates for partition functions Some of these proofs have not previously appeared in a text Indeed, many results in this book are new Number theory is an ancient subject, but we still cannot answer the simplest and most natural questions about the integers Important, easily stated, but still unsolved problems appear throughout the book You should think about them and try to solve them Melvyn B Nathanson1 Maplewood, New Jersey November 1, 1999 Supported in part by grants from the PSC-CUNY Research Award Program and the NSA Mathematical Sciences Program This book was completed while I was visiting the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and I thank the Institute for its hospitality I also thank Jacob Sturm for many helpful discussions about parts of this book Notation and Conventions We denote the set of positive integers (also called the natural numbers) by N and the set of nonnegative integers by N0 The integer, rational, real, and complex numbers are denoted by Z, Q, R, and C, respectively The absolute value of z ∈ C is |z| We denote by Zn the group of lattice points in the n-dimensional Euclidean space Rn The integer part of the real number x, denoted by [x], is the largest integer that is less than or equal to x The fractional part of x is denoted by {x} Then x = [x] + {x}, where [x] ∈ Z, {x} ∈ R, and ≤ {x} < In computer science, the integer part of x is often called the floor of x, and denoted by x The smallest integer that is greater than or equal to x is called the ceiling of x and denoted by x We adopt the standard convention that an empty sum of numbers is equal to and an empty product is equal to Similarly, an empty union 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Legendre Birkhăauser, Boston, 1984 [154] A Weil Basic Number Theory Classics in Mathematics SpringerVerlag, Berlin, 1995 Reprint of the 3rd edition, published in 1974 [155] A Wieferich Zum letzten Fermat’schen Satz J reine angew Math., 136:293–302, 1909 [156] A Wiles Modular elliptic curves and Fermat’s last theorem Annals Math., 141:443–531, 1995 [157] B M Wilson Proofs of some formulæ enunciated by Ramanujan Proc London Math Soc., 21:235–255, 1922 [158] Y Yang Inverse problems for partition functions Preprint, 1998 [159] D Zagier Newman’s short proof of the prime number theorem Amer Math Monthly, 104:705–708, 1997 Index abc conjecture, 185 abelian group, 10 abelian theorem, 486 abundant number, 241, 260 k-abundant, 260 primitive, 260 additive basis, 359 additive character, 325 additive set function, 133 algebraically closed field, 177 aliquot sequence, 243 arithmetic function, 57, 201 asymptotic basis, 359 asymptotic density, 244, 257, 360, 475 lower, 256, 482 upper, 256, 482 asymptotically stable basis, 360 basis, 359 asymptotic, 359 asymptotically stable, 360 of finite order, 359 of order h, 359 stable, 359 binary operation, 10 binary quadratic form, 108, 405 binomial coefficient, 8, 268 binomial polynomial, 357 Carmichael number, 76 Catalan conjecture, 186 Catalan equation, 184, 186 Catalan–Dickson problem, 244 Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, 139 ceiling function, xi character, 126 additive character, 325 complex character, 326 Dirichlet character, 326 even character, 326 induced, 328 multiplicative character, 326 odd character, 326 primitive, 328 principal character, 326 real character, 326 character group, 127 character table, 131 Chebyshev functions, 267 510 Index Chebyshev’s theorem, 271 ciphertext, 76 classical Gauss sum, 153 cofinite, 476 common divisor, 12 common multiple, 28 commutative group, 10 commutative ring, 48 comparative prime number theory, 351 complete set of residues, 46 completely additive, 27 completely multiplicative, 226 complex character, 326 composite number, 25 congruence abc conjecture, 191 congruence class, 46 congruent, 45 congruent polynomials, 90 conjugate divisor, 25, 405 continued fraction, 19 convergent, 23 convolution, 139 coset, 69 counting function, 256, 359, 475 cryptanalysis, 77 cryptography, 76 cusp form, 453 cyclic group, 70 deficient number, 241 degree of polynomial, 84 density, 256, 475 asymptotic, 360 Shnirel’man, 359 derivation, 175, 203 derivative, 116 diagonalizable operator, 146 difference operator, 357 difference set, 361 diophantine equation, 37 direct product of groups, 124 direct sum, 121 Dirichlet L-function, 330 Dirichlet character, 325, 326 Dirichlet convolution, 201 Dirichlet polynomial, 337 Dirichlet series, 337 Dirichlet’s divisor problem, 233 Dirichlet’s theorem, 347 discrete logarithm, 88 discriminant, 108 division algorithm, divisor, divisor function, 231, 405, 431 double coset, 73 double dual, 129 dual group, 127 eigenvalue, 146 eigenvector, 146 Eisenstein series, 453 equivalent polynomials, 73 Euclid’s lemma, 26 Euclid’s theorem, 33 Euclidean algorithm, 18 length, 18 Euler phi function, 54, 57, 227 Euler product, 330 Euler’s constant, 213 Euler’s theorem, 67 evaluation map, 85 even character, 326 even function, 401 eventually coincide, 397 exactly divide, 27 exponent, 83 exponential congruence, 97 factorization, 234 Fermat prime, 36, 107 Fermat’s last theorem, 183, 185 Fermat’s little theorem, 68 Fermat’s theorem, 407 Fibonacci numbers, 23 field, 49 floor function, xi formal power series, 205 Fourier transform, 135, 160 fractional part, 29, 206 Index Frobenius problem, 39 fundamental theorem of arithmetic, 26 Gauss sum, 152 classical, 153 Gauss’s lemma, 103 Gaussian integer, 453 Gaussian set, 103 generalized von Mangoldt function, 290 generating function, 483 generator, 70 greatest common divisor, 12 polynomial, 91 group, 10 group character, 126 group of units, 49 Haar measure, 134 Heisenberg group, 16 Hensel’s lemma, 116 homomorphism group, 13 ring, 48 Hypothesis H, 288 ideal, 90, 171 image, 16 incongruent, 45 integer part, xi, 28, 206 integer-valued polynomial, 356, 357 integral domain, 174 integral operator, 146 invertible class, 55 involution, 403 isomorphism, 13 Jacobi symbol, 114 Jacobi’s theorem, 431 k-abundant number, 260 kernel, 16 Kneser’s theorem, 397 511 L-function, 330 -function, 275 Lagrange’s theorem, 69, 355 Lam´e’s theorem, 25 lattice point, 233 Laurent polynomial, 181 leading coefficient, 84 least common multiple, 28 least nonnegative residue, 46 Legendre symbol, 101, 153 Leibniz formula, 119 lexicographic order, linear diophantine equation, 39 Liouville’s formulae, 402, 419, 420 Liouville’s function, 226 Ljunggren equation, 42 localization, 180 logarithmic derivative, 177 logarithmic integral, 298 lower asymptotic density, 256, 360, 482 m-adic representation, mathematical induction, xii, mean value, 206 Mersenne prime, 36, 107, 242 Mertens’s formula, 279 Mertens’s theorem, 276 middle binomial coefficient, 268 minimum principle, multiple, multiplicative character, 326 multiplicative function, 58, 217, 224, 430 multiplicatively closed, 179 Măobius function, 217 Măobius inversion, 218 nilpotent, 56, 172 norm L2 , 134 L∞ , 137 NSE, 367, 376 odd character, 326 512 Index odd function, 401 order, 68 group, 69 group element, 70 lexicographic, partial, 10 total, 10 order modulo m, 83 order of magnitude, xii, 273 orthogonality relations, 129, 130, 327 p-adic value, 27 p-group, 121 pairing, 129 pairwise relatively prime, 13 partial fractions, 462 partial order, 10 partial quotients, 19 partial summation, 211 partition, 455 partition function, 455 perfect number, 241 plaintext, 76 pointwise product, 201 pointwise sum, 201 polynomial, 84 congruent, 90 degree, 84 derivative, 116 monic, 84 root, 85 zero, 85 power, 189 power residue, 98 powerful number, 32, 187 prime ideal, 171 prime number, 25 prime number race, 351 prime number theorem, 274, 289 primitive abundant number, 260 primitive root, 84 primitive set, 255 principal character, 151, 326 principal ideal, 171 principal ring, 171 product ideal, 175 projective space, 15 pseudoprime, 75 public key cryptosystem, 76, 78 quadratic form, 108, 404 quadratic nonresidue, 98, 101 quadratic reciprocity law, 109 quadratic residue, 98, 100 quotient, quotient field, 176, 180 quotient group, 73 radical, 30, 172, 218 of a polynomial, 173 of an integer, 172 radical ideal, 172 Ramanujan-Nagell equation, 42 real character, 326 reduced set of residues, 54 reflexive relation, relatively prime, 13 remainder, representation function, 367 residue class, 46 Riemann hypothesis, 323, 351 Riemann zeta function, 221, 335 ring, 48 ring of formal power series, 205 ring of fractions, 180 root of unity, 11 RSA cryptosystem, 79 secret key cryptosystem, 77 Selberg’s formula, 293, 294 set of multiples, 255 Shnirel’man density, 359 Shnirel’man’s addition theorem, 363 sieve of Eratosthenes, 34 simple continued fraction, 19 spectrum, 171 square-free integer, 32, 217 stable basis, 359 Index standard factorization, 27 subgroup, 11 sum function, 206 sumset, 121, 361 support, 137, 291 tauberian theorem, 486 Taylor’s formula, 119 ternary quadratic form, 405 theta function, 453 total order, 10 totient function, 54 trace of a matrix, 144 transitive relation, 10 translation invariant, 134 translation operator, 139, 146 twin primes, 31, 287 unimodal, 206, 268, 474 unit, 48 upper asymptotic density, 256, 482 von Mangoldt function, 223, 276 generalized, 290 Waring’s problem, 355 for polynomials, 356 weight function, 375 weighted set, 375 Wieferich prime, 187 Wieferich’s theorem, 355 Wilson’s theorem, 53 zero set, 173 513 Graduate Texts in Mathematics (continuedfrom page ii) 62 KAROAPOLOV/MERLZJAKOV Fundamentals of the Theory of Groups 63 BoLLOBAS Graph Theory 64 EDWARDS Fourier Series Vol 12nd ed 65 WELLS Differential Analysis on Complex Manifolds 2nd ed 66 WATERHOUSE Introduction to Affine Group Schemes 67 SERRE Local Fields 68 WEIDMANN Linear 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GOLDBLATT Lectures on the Hyperreals: An Introduction to Nonstandard Analysis 189 LAM Lectures on Modules and Rings 190 ESMONDE/MURTY Problems in Algebraic Number Theory 191 LANG Fundamentals of Differential Geometry 192 HIRSCH/LACOMBE Elements of Functional Analysis 193 COHEN Advanced Topics in Computational Number Theory 194 ENGEL/NAGEL One-Parameter Semigroups for Linear Evolution Equations 195 NATHANSON Elementary Methods in Number Theory ... 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