Conjecture on the oscillation of the cosine-sine divisor sum

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Let

CS(x):=nmxcos(2πnap)sin(2πmbq),\mathbb{C}\mathbb{S}(x):={\sum_{nm\leq x}}^{\prime}\cos\left(\frac{2\pi na}{p}\right)\sin\left(\frac{2\pi mb}{q}\right),

with the parameters and primed summation convention used in the paper. Cosine-sine oscillation conjecture.

limxCS(x)x1/4=+,limxCS(x)x1/4=.\varlimsup_{x\to\infty}\frac{\mathbb{C}\mathbb{S}(x)}{x^{1/4}}=+\infty, \qquad \varliminf_{x\to\infty}\frac{\mathbb{C}\mathbb{S}(x)}{x^{1/4}}=-\infty.

This predicts unbounded oscillation at scale x1/4x^{1/4}. The motivation is that available Ω\Omega-theorems control the constituent character-divisor sums, but do not directly yield an Ω\Omega-theorem for their linear combination.

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Primary source

Bruce C. Berndt, Martino Fassina, Sun Kim and Alexandru Zaharescu, “Balanced Derivatives, Identities, and Bounds for Trigonometric and Bessel Series”, arXiv:2102.11897 (2021).

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