Prime-restriction metric for pretentious distance

ID: prime-restriction-metric-for-pretentious-distance

For unit-modulus prime values, pretentious distance is the Euclidean metric on the finite vectors . On whole arithmetic functions it is only a pseudometric: it sees neither values on prime powers nor primes above the cutoff. Even for every cutoff, the functions one and have distance zero but differ on nonsquarefree integers. The norm representation proves the triangle inequality and identifies exactly the quotient on which separation holds.

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