On a conjecture of Issai Schur.
Let and . Denote by the set of all integers whose canonical prime representation has all exponents
A certain generalized divisor function is studied which counts the number of factorizations of a natural number into integer powers with prescribed exponents under certain congruence restrictions. An -estimate is established for the remainder term in the asymptotic for its Dirichlet summatory function.
We investigate the distribution of (which counts the number of Farey fractions of order n) in residue classes. While numerical computations suggest that Φ(n) is equidistributed modulo q if q is odd, and is equidistributed modulo the odd residue classes modulo q when q is even, we prove that the set of integers n such that Φ(n) lies in these residue classes has a positive lower density when q = 3,4. We also provide a simple proof, based on the Selberg-Delange method, of a result of T. Dence and...