A Tauberian approach to the orthorecursive expansion of unity

Abstract: We establish a Tauberian theorem connecting the unknown asymptotic behavior of the partial sums $\sum_{n\le x}a_{n}$ to the known asymptotics of weighted sums $\sum_{n\le x}a_{n}g(n/x)$, as $x\rightarrow\infty$, where $g:(0,1]\to\mathbb{R}$ is a given function. Our approach relies on an identity relating a modified Mellin transform of $g$ to the Dirichlet series $\sum_{n\ge1}a_{n}n^{-s}$. As an application, we solve an open problem posed by Kalmynin and Kosenko regarding the "orthorecursive expansion of unity" associated with a sequence $(c_{n}){n\geq0}$. Specifically, we improve their partial-sum bound $C{N}=\sum_{0\leq n\leq N}c_{n}=\mathcal{O}(N^{-1/2})$, by obtaining the optimal estimate $C_{N}=\mathcal{O}(N^{-\alpha_{1}+\epsilon})$, where $\alpha_{1}\approx1.3465165$ is the smallest real part among the zeros of a transcendental function related to the digamma function.