On Ikehara type Tauberian theorems with \(O(x^\gamma )\) remainders

Abstract

Motivated by analytic number theory, we explore remainder versions of Ikehara’s Tauberian theorem yielding power law remainder terms. More precisely, for \(f:[1,\infty )\rightarrow {\mathbb R}\) non-negative and non-decreasing we prove \(f(x)-x=O(x^\gamma )\) with \(\gamma <1\) under certain assumptions on f. We state a conjecture concerning the weakest natural assumptions and show that we cannot hope for more.