Local asymptotic conjecture for generalized abundancy coefficients

Let cmathcalH,n(x)=k=0nA(,n,k)xk/n!cmathcal{H}_{\ell,n}(x)=\sum_{k=0}^{n}A(\ell,n,k)x^k/n!, and let λ=ln(1)ln(K)\lambda_{\ell}=\ell\ln(\ell-1)-\ln(\mathcal{K}_{\ell}), where K=Γ()ζ(2)ζ()\mathcal{K}_{\ell}=\Gamma(\ell)\zeta(2)\cdots\zeta(\ell). For nn\to\infty and kk\to\infty such that k/n(1)/k/n^{(\ell-1)/\ell} converges to a quantity in (0,)(0,\infty), define λ~(k/n)=λ+ε(k/n)\widetilde{\lambda}_{\ell}(k/n)=\lambda_{\ell}+\varepsilon_{\ell}(k/n), where ε(t)\varepsilon_{\ell}(t) is a linear combination of terms tj(lnt)rt^j(\ln t)^r with 1j11\leq j\leq\ell-1 and r{0,1,}r\in\{0,1,\dots\}. Main conjecture. Under these conditions, we should have

A(,n,k)n!=12πnekkln(k)+(1)kln(n)λ~(k/n)k(1+o(1)).\frac{A(\ell,n,k)}{n!}=\frac{\sqrt{\ell-1}}{2\pi n}e^{k\ell-k\ell\ln(k)+(\ell-1)k\ln(n)-\widetilde{\lambda}_{\ell}(k/n)k}(1+o(1)).

The conjecture refines the preceding central limit theorem by incorporating corrections to λ\lambda_{\ell} that are needed to obtain order-one accuracy. The paper notes that such corrections can be calculated for H,n(1)\mathcal{H}_{\ell,n}(1) in related work, but does not establish this local asymptotic formula.

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Shannon Starr, “Some Observations about the "Generalized Abundancy Index"”, arXiv:2505.07051 (2025).

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