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Mean value theorems for binary Egyptian fractions II

Number Theory 2011-09-13 v1

Abstract

In this article, we continue with our investigation of the Diophantine equation an=1x+1y\frac{a}n=\frac1x+\frac1y and in particular its number of solutions R(n;a)R(n;a) for fixed aa. We prove a couple of mean value theorems for the second moment (R(n;a))2(R(n;a))^2 and from which we deduce logR(n;a)\log R(n;a) satisfies a certain Gaussian distribution with mean log3loglogn\log 3\log\log n and variance (log3)2loglogn(log 3)^2\log\log n, which is an analog of the classical theorem of Erd\H os and Kac. And finally these results in all suggest that the behavior of R(n;a)R(n;a) resembles the divisor function d(n2)d(n^2) in various aspects.

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@article{arxiv.1109.2274,
  title  = {Mean value theorems for binary Egyptian fractions II},
  author = {Jing-Jing Huang and Robert C. Vaughan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.2274},
  year   = {2011}
}

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9 pages, submitted

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