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Sum of Divisors Function And The Largest Integer Function Over The Shifted Primes

General Mathematics 2021-07-05 v1

Abstract

Let x1 x\geq 1 be a large number, let [x]=x{x} [x]=x-\{x\} be the largest integer function, and let σ(n) \sigma(n) be the sum of divisors function. This note presents the first proof of the asymptotic formula for the average order pxσ([x/p])=c0xloglogx+O(x) \sum_{p\leq x}\sigma([x/p])=c_0x\log \log x+O(x) over the primes, where c0>0c_0>0 is a constant. More generally, pxσ([x/(p+a)])=c0xloglogx+O(x) \sum_{p\leq x}\sigma([x/(p+a)])=c_0x\log \log x+O(x) for any fixed integer aa.

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@article{arxiv.2107.01030,
  title  = {Sum of Divisors Function And The Largest Integer Function Over The Shifted Primes},
  author = {N. A. Carella},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.01030},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Nine Pages. Keywords: Arithmetic function; Sum of divisors function; Largest integer function; Average orders; Shifted primes. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2105.00790

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