The Fourier coefficients of 1600038X&_mathId=si2.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0022314X1600038X&_rdoc=1&_issn=0022314X&md5=5d3cd8ef7a521e3c1eeeea3c00f2b2a0" title="Click to view the MathML source">x↦λxBn(x,y;λ) on 1600038X&_mathId=si3.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0022314X1600038X&_rdoc=1&_issn=0022314X&md5=1e3912152bd1a6f6c2b64fb53ce5c5f1" title="Click to view the MathML source">[0,1) satisfy an arithmetical–dynamical transformation formula which makes the Fourier series amenable to a technique of generalized Möbius inversion. This yields some interesting arithmetic summation identities, among them parametrized versions of the following well-known classical formula of Davenport:
where 1600038X&_mathId=si5.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0022314X1600038X&_rdoc=1&_issn=0022314X&md5=c056198c0edde47c96beb1ed2ec52a8b" title="Click to view the MathML source">μ(n) is the Möbius function and 1600038X&_mathId=si135.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0022314X1600038X&_rdoc=1&_issn=0022314X&md5=38306763cab809bb297b3833a5ae067d" title="Click to view the MathML source">{x} denotes the fractional part of x . Davenport's formula is the limiting case 1600038X&_mathId=si242.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0022314X1600038X&_rdoc=1&_issn=0022314X&md5=13815b59d58fae9e9dc2d0c291cc4766" title="Click to view the MathML source">α=0 of which is valid for 1600038X&_mathId=si249.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0022314X1600038X&_rdoc=1&_issn=0022314X&md5=c4d3f2071d49b780c4dc90bed8722d3b" title="Click to view the MathML source">−π<α≤π.