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IMPROVING AN INEQUALITY FOR THE DIVISOR FUNCTION

Part of: Multiplicative number theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2018

JEFFREY P. S. LAY Open the ORCID record for JEFFREY P. S. LAY [Opens in a new window]
JEFFREY P. S. LAY*
Affiliation:
Mathematical Sciences Institute, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia email jeffrey.lay@anu.edu.au
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Abstract

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Using elementary means, we improve an explicit bound on the divisor function due to Friedlander and Iwaniec [Opera de Cribro, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2010]. Consequently, we modestly improve a result regarding a sieving inequality for Gaussian sequences.

Keywords

divisor functionsmall divisorsGaussian sequencessieve estimates

MSC classification

Primary: 11N56: Rate of growth of arithmetic functions
Secondary: 11N36: Applications of sieve methods 11N37: Asymptotic results on arithmetic functions 11N64: Other results on the distribution of values or the characterization of arithmetic functions
Type
Research Article
Information
Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 97 , Issue 3 , June 2018 , pp. 374 - 381
Copyright
© 2018 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 

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