On the asymptotics of Kempner-Irwin sums
Let I(b, d, k) be the subseries of the harmonic series keeping the integers having exactly k occurrences of the digit d in base b. We prove the existence of an asymptotic expansion to all orders in descending powers of b, for fixed d and k, of I(b, d, k) − b log(b). We explicitly give, depending on cases, either four or five terms. The coefficients involve the values of the zeta function at the integers.
Authors
- Jean-François Burnol (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1764-6835)
Institutions
- Twitter (United States) (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- International Journal of Number Theory
- Published
- 2026-07-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1142/s1793042126501319
- Primary Topic
- Analytic Number Theory Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00