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On some mean value results for the zeta-function in short intervals

Aleksandar Ivić (2014)

Acta Arithmetica

Let Δ ( x ) denote the error term in the Dirichlet divisor problem, and let E(T) denote the error term in the asymptotic formula for the mean square of |ζ(1/2+it)|. If E*(t) := E(t) - 2πΔ*(t/(2π)) with Δ*(x) = -Δ(x) + 2Δ(2x) - 1/2Δ(4x) and 0 T E * ( t ) d t = 3 / 4 π T + R ( T ) , then we obtain a number of results involving the moments of |ζ(1/2+it)| in short intervals, by connecting them to the moments of E*(T) and R(T) in short intervals. Upper bounds and asymptotic formulae for integrals of the form ∫T2T(∫t-Ht+H |ζ(1/2+iu|2 duk dt ( k , 1 H T ) are...

On some problems of Mąkowski-Schinzel and Erdős concerning the arithmetical functions ϕ and σ

Florian Luca, Carl Pomerance (2002)

Colloquium Mathematicae

Let σ(n) denote the sum of positive divisors of the integer n, and let ϕ denote Euler's function, that is, ϕ(n) is the number of integers in the interval [1,n] that are relatively prime to n. It has been conjectured by Mąkowski and Schinzel that σ(ϕ(n))/n ≥ 1/2 for all n. We show that σ(ϕ(n))/n → ∞ on a set of numbers n of asymptotic density 1. In addition, we study the average order of σ(ϕ(n))/n as well as its range. We use similar methods to prove a conjecture of Erdős that ϕ(n-ϕ(n)) < ϕ(n)...

On sums of two cubes: an Ω₊-estimate for the error term

M. Kühleitner, W. G. Nowak, J. Schoissengeier, T. D. Wooley (1998)

Acta Arithmetica

The arithmetic function r k ( n ) counts the number of ways to write a natural number n as a sum of two kth powers (k ≥ 2 fixed). The investigation of the asymptotic behaviour of the Dirichlet summatory function of r k ( n ) leads in a natural way to a certain error term P k ( t ) which is known to be O ( t 1 / 4 ) in mean-square. In this article it is proved that P ( t ) = Ω ( t 1 / 4 ( l o g l o g t ) 1 / 4 ) as t → ∞. Furthermore, it is shown that a similar result would be true for every fixed k > 3 provided that a certain set of algebraic numbers contains a sufficiently...

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