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On the average sum of the $k$-th divisor function over values of quadratic polynomials

Number Theory 2019-09-18 v1

Abstract

Let F(x)Z[x1,x2,,xn]F({\bf x})\in\mathbb{Z}[x_1,x_2,\dots,x_n] be a quadratic polynomial in n3n\geq 3 variables with a nonsingular quadratic part. Using the circle method we derive an asymptotic formula for the sum Σk,F(X;B)=xXBZnτk(F(x)), \Sigma_{k,F}(X; {\mathcal{B}})=\sum_{{\bf x}\in X\mathcal{B}\cap\mathbb{Z}^{n}}\tau_{k}\left(F({\bf x})\right), for XX tending to infinity, where BRn\mathcal{B}\subset\mathbb{R}^n is an nn-dimensional box such that minxXBF(x)0\min\limits_{{\bf x}\in X\mathcal{B}}F({\bf x})\ge 0 for all sufficiently large XX, and τk()\tau_{k}(\cdot) is the kk-th divisor function for any integer k2k\ge 2.

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@article{arxiv.1909.07723,
  title  = {On the average sum of the $k$-th divisor function over values of quadratic polynomials},
  author = {Kostadinka Lapkova and Nian Hong Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.07723},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

this article supersedes arXiv:1703.10546