Differentiability conjecture for the arithmetic Fourier series FkF_k and GkG_k

Let FkF_k and GkG_k be the arithmetic Fourier series considered in the paper, and let qn(x)q_n(x) denote the denominators of the continued-fraction convergents of xx. Let kNk\in\mathbb{N}^* be even. Differentiability conjecture. (i) Neither FkF_k nor GkG_k is differentiable at any xQx\in\mathbb{Q}; however, GkG_k is right and left differentiable at each xQx\in\mathbb{Q}. (ii) The function GkG_k is differentiable at any xRQx\in\mathbb{R}\setminus\mathbb{Q}. (iii) The function FkF_k is differentiable at xRQx\in\mathbb{R}\setminus\mathbb{Q} if and only if

n=0logqn+1(x)qn(x)k<.\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{\log q_{n+1}(x)}{q_n(x)^k}<\infty.

The conjecture extends the differentiability results proved in the paper for the case k=2k=2 to every even positive integer. The preceding discussion indicates that removing the additional conditions used in the k=2k=2 theorem is expected to be necessary, while the proposed general statement remains unproved in the source.

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Izabela Petrykiewicz, “Differentiability of arithmetic Fourier series arising from Eisenstein series”, arXiv:1411.5871 (2014).

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