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Convolution sums of some functions on divisors

Number Theory 2015-07-17 v1

Abstract

One of the main goals in this paper is to establish convolution sums of functions for the divisor sums σ~s(n)=dn(1)d1ds\widetilde{\sigma}_s(n)=\sum_{d|n}(-1)^{d-1}d^s and σ^s(n)=dn(1)nd1ds\widehat{\sigma}_s(n)=\sum_{d|n}(-1)^{\frac{n}{d}-1}d^s, for certain ss, which were first defined by Glaisher. We first introduce three functions P(q)\mathcal{P}(q), E(q)\mathcal{E}(q), and Q(q)\mathcal{Q}(q) related to σ~(n)\widetilde{\sigma}(n), σ^(n)\widehat{\sigma}(n), and σ~3(n)\widetilde{\sigma}_3(n), respectively, and then we evaluate them in terms of two parameters xx and zz in Ramanujan's theory of elliptic functions. Using these formulas, we derive some identities from which we can deduce convolution sum identities. We discuss some formulae for determining rs(n)r_s(n) and δs(n)\delta_s(n), s=4,s=4, 88, in terms of σ~(n)\widetilde{\sigma}(n), σ^(n)\widehat{\sigma}(n), and σ~3(n)\widetilde{\sigma}_3(n), where rs(n)r_s(n) denotes the number of representations of nn as a sum of ss squares and δs(n)\delta_s(n) denotes the number of representations of nn as a sum of ss triangular numbers. Finally, we find some partition congruences by using the notion of colored partitions.

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@article{arxiv.1507.04426,
  title  = {Convolution sums of some functions on divisors},
  author = {Heekyoung Hahn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.04426},
  year   = {2015}
}

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