Pretentious multiplicative functions and an inequality for the zeta-function
Abstract
We note how several central results in multiplicative number theory may be rephrased naturally in terms of multiplicative functions f that pretend to be another multiplicative function g. We formalize a `distance' which gives a measure of such pretentiousness, and as one consequence obtain a curious inequality for the zeta-function.
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