On the pointwise periodicity of multiplicative and additive functions

Abstract: We study the problem of estimating the number of points of coincidences of an idealized gap on the set of integers under a given multiplicative function $g:\mathbb{N}\longrightarrow \mathbb{C}$ respectively additive function $f:\mathbb{N}\longrightarrow \mathbb{C}$. We obtain various lower bounds depending on the length of the period, by varying the worst growth rates of the ratios of their consecutive values.