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Let $\gcd(d_{1},\ldots,d_{k})$ be the greatest common divisor of the positive integers $d_{1},\ldots,d_{k}$, for any integer $k\geq 2$, and let $\tau$ and $\mu$ denote the divisor function and the M\"{o}bius function, respectively. For an…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Isao Kiuchi , Sumaia Saad Eddin

For every $\tau\in\mathbb{R}$ and every integer $N$, let $\mathfrak{m}_N(\tau)$ be the minimum of the distance of $\tau$ from the sums $\sum_{n=1}^N s_n/n$, where $s_1, \ldots, s_n \in \{-1, +1\}$. We prove that $\mathfrak{m}_N(\tau) <…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Sandro Bettin , Giuseppe Molteni , Carlo Sanna

Let $q > 2$ be a prime number and define $\lambda_q := \left( \frac{\tau}{q} \right)$ where $\tau(n)$ is the number of divisors of $n$ and $\left( \frac{\cdot}{q} \right)$ is the Legendre symbol. When $\tau(n)$ is a quadratic residue modulo…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Olivier Bordellès

We study the average value of the divisor function $\tau(n)$ for $n\le x$ with $n \equiv a \bmod q$. The divisor function is known to be evenly distributed over arithmetic progressions for all $q$ that are a little smaller than $x^{2/3}$.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-25 Rizwanur Khan

We study the triple convolution sum of the divisor function given by $$\sum_{n\leq x} d(n)d(n-h)d(n+h)$$ for $h\neq 0$ and $d(n)$ denotes the number of positive divisors of $n$. Based on algebraic and geometric considerations, Browning…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Bikram Misra , M. Ram Murty , Biswajyoti Saha

Let $a(r,n)$ be $r$th coefficient of $n$th cyclotomic polynomial. Suzuki proved that $\{a(r,n)|r\geq 1,n\geq 1\}=\mathbb{Z}$. If $m$ and $n$ are two natural numbers we prove an analogue of Suzuki's theorem for divisors of $x^n-1$ with…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-13 Sai Teja Somu

Consider the divisor sum $\sum_{n\leq N}\tau(n^2+2bn+c)$ for integers $b$ and $c$. We extract an asymptotic formula for the average divisor sum in a convenient form, and provide an explicit upper bound for this sum with the correct main…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Kostadinka Lapkova

A representation of divisor function $\tau(n)\equiv \sigma_{0}(n)$ by means of logarithmic residue of a function of complex variable is suggested. This representation may be useful theoretical instrument for further investigations of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2011-09-19 E. E. Kholupenko

We investigate fractional sums of arithmetic functions over products of two or three integers, with emphasis on fixed greatest common divisors and multiplicative weights. Let $f$ be an arithmetic function satisfying $f(n) \ll n^\alpha$ for…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Meselem Karras

We give an asymptotic formula for the divisor sum $\sum_{c<n\leq N}\tau\left((n-b)(n-c)\right)$ for integers $b<c$ of the same parity. Interestingly, the coefficient of the main term does not depend on the discriminant as long as it is a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-04-24 Kostadinka Lapkova

The divisor function $\sigma(n)$ denotes the sum of the divisors of the positive integer $n$. For a prime $p$ and $m \in \mathbb{N}$, the $p$-adic valuation of $m$ is the highest power of $p$ which divides $m$. Formulas for…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-08 Tewodros Amdeberhan , Victor H. Moll , Vaishavi Sharma , Diego Villamizar

Let $d(n)$ denote the number of divisors of a positive integer $n$. A classical problem in analytic number theory is given by the asymptotic behavior of the divisor sum $\sum_{n \leq x} \frac{1}{d(n)}$, with Ramanujan having introduced an…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-04 John M. Campbell

For $r \in \mathbb{R}, r> 1$ and $n \in \mathbb{Z}^+$, the divisor function $\sigma_{-r}$ is defined by $\sigma_{-r}(n) := \sum_{d \vert n} d^{-r}$. In this paper we show the number $C_r$ of connected components of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-06 Nina Zubrilina

We prove that for any nonnegative integers $n$ and $r$ the binomial sum $$ \sum_{k=-n}^n\binom{2n}{n-k}k^{2r} $$ is divisible by $2^{2n-\min\{\alpha(n),\alpha(r)\}}$, where $\alpha(n)$ denotes the number of 1's in the binary expansion of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-09-01 Hao Pan , Zhi-Wei Sun

For a function $f\colon \mathbb{N}\to\mathbb{N}$, let $$ N^+_f(x)=\{n\leq x: n=k+f(k) \mbox{ for some } k\}. $$ Let $\tau(n)=\sum_{d|n}1$ be the divisor function, $\omega(n)=\sum_{p|n}1$ be the prime divisor function, and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-29 Mikhail R. Gabdullin , Vitalii V. Iudelevich , Florian Luca

In this article, we present relations for the Euler totient function $\varphi(n)$ and the number of divisors $\tau(n)$ in terms of finite sums of integer parts of rational numbers or greatest common divisors of pairs of integers. Some of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Jean-Christophe Pain

We obtain several asymptotic formulas for the sum of the divisor function $\tau(n)$ with $n \le x$ in an arithmetic progressions $n \equiv a \pmod q$ on average over $a$ from a set of several consecutive elements from set of reduced…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-26 Bryce Kerr , Igor E. Shparlinski

Let $\tau_k$ be the $k$-fold divisor function. By constructing an approximant of $\tau_k$, denoted as $\tau_k^*$, which is a normalized truncation of the $k$-fold divisor function, we prove that when $\exp\left(C\log^{1/2}X(\log\log…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Mengdi Wang

Let $ x\geq 1 $ be a large number, let $ [x]=x-\{x\} $ be the largest integer function, and let $ \sigma(n)$ be the sum of divisors function. This note presents the first proof of the asymptotic formula for the average order $ \sum_{p\leq…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-07-05 N. A. Carella

Let $\sum_{d|n}$ denote sum over divisors of a positive integer $n$, and $t_{r}(n)$ denote the number of representations of $n$ as a sum of $r$ triangular numbers. Then we prove that $$…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Sumit Kumar Jha