A note on multiplicative automatic sequences, II

Abstract

We prove that any q-automatic multiplicative function f:N either essentially coincides with a Dirichlet character, or vanishes on all sufficiently large primes. This confirms a strong form of a conjecture of J. Bell, N. Bruin, and M. Coons.

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