Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 iii Paper 25 2 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
Use the Fourier transform convention . The complex measure is finite because . The Möbius divisor-sum identity, proved in the preceding solution, allows multiplication of absolutely convergent Dirichlet series and givesHere is the Riemann zeta function. We prove the estimates in the intended range . A uniform estimate of the printed form for all would be false: at , as , while its proposed upper bound tends to zero. A version valid for every replaces by .
For completeness, unique prime factorization and absolute convergence give andas the logarithm defined by that Euler product. The elementary nonnegative trigonometric polynomialtherefore proves the three-four-one inequality for Euler productsWe also need elementary uniform bounds for derivatives of the Riemann zeta function. For an integer , summation by parts givesThis continues the function to with just the pole at one. For , , choose . Differentiating times, the finite Dirichlet polynomial is bounded by . Derivatives of the second term have the same bound, since . In the last term, differentiated integrands are bounded by , whose integral is ; multiplication by is harmless. It follows thatAs , the three-four-one inequality for Euler products gives, for ,To handle bounded , first note that cannot vanish at for : a zero of order would make the three-four-one product , contradicting its lower bound one. At , the reciprocal extends holomorphically with a simple zero, since the pole of has residue one. Thus and all its derivatives are bounded on the compact rectangle , . This proves the requested reciprocal zeta bounds near the line one:
For the derivative estimate, repeatedly differentiate . Every term of is a constant timesThe preceding derivative bounds and reciprocal estimate bound this by . Compact-height bounds supply the remaining range. Since , this has exactly the requested dependence, with an explicit logarithmic exponent linear in for .
Here is the unsmoothing a logarithmically weighted sum argument with the normalization repaired. For real ,Indeed the Fourier transform of is , so Fourier inversion gives the identity, also at by continuity. In a vertical contour integral the coefficient is and the differential is . The printed real- integral has with and is missing this factor of .
Set , taking when . Its Dirichlet series is . The logarithmically smoothed Perron formula, justified by absolute convergence, givesFor choose . The integral of is finite, with a constant depending only on , and . Thus, with ,For , subtraction gives the exact finite-difference identityThe last sum is , since there are terms. ConsequentlyFor , choose to get exponent . For , the trivial bound is already no larger than that estimate. The extra term is absorbed for fixed . HenceThis also yields the cancellation needed for the Prime number theorem. Choose a fixed , discard at cost for the unweighted sum, and use partial summation with on the rest. The displayed bound gives ; the preceding solution then gives .