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Counting Divisors in the Outputs of a Binary Quadratic Form

Number Theory 2023-10-23 v1

Abstract

For a fixed natural number hh, we prove meromorphic continuation of the two-variable Dirichlet series mr2(m)σw(m+h)(m+h)s+w\sum_m r_2(m) \sigma_w(m + h) (m + h)^{-s + w} to C2\mathbb{C}^2 and use this to obtain asymptotics for m2+n2Xσw(m2+n2+h)\sum_{m^2 + n^2 \leq X} \sigma_w(m^2 + n^2 + h). We approach this continuation through spectral theory. Our results are comparable to earlier work of Bykovskii, who used different methods to study the sums n2Xσw(n2+h)\sum_{n^2 \leq X} \sigma_w(n^2 + h).

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@article{arxiv.2310.13632,
  title  = {Counting Divisors in the Outputs of a Binary Quadratic Form},
  author = {Chan Ieong Kuan and David Lowry-Duda and Alexander Walker and Tinghao Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.13632},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

41 pages, including an appendix by Kuan and Huang