Central Limit Theorems in Analytic Number Theory
Date: Wed, Mar 8, 2023
Location: Online
Conference: Emergent Research: The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar
Subject: Mathematics
Class: Scientific
Abstract:
Central limit theorem is a significant result in probability. It states that under some assumptions, the behavior of the average of identically distributed independent random variables tends towards that of the standard Gaussian random variable as the number of variables tends to infinity. In number theory, Erdős-Kac theorem is an example of this which is about the distribution of an arithmetic function while Selberg's central limit theorem is about the distribution of the Riemann zeta-function. In this talk, we aim to provide some explanations toward the proofs of these results and mention some versions of Selberg's theorem.