Möbius transform
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- The Möbius transform should not be confused with Möbius transformations.
In mathematics, the Möbius transform Tf of a function f defined on the positive integers is defined by
where μ is the classic Möbius function. In more common usage, the function Tf is called the Möbius inverse of f.
(The notation d | n means d is a divisor of n.)
This function is named in honor of August Ferdinand Möbius.
The transform takes multiplicative functions to multiplicative functions. On Dirichlet series generating functions it corresponds to division by the Riemann zeta function.
[edit] Series relations
Let
so that
be its transform. The transforms are related by means of series: the Lambert series
and the Dirichlet series:
where ζ(s) is the Riemann zeta function.