GCD sums from Poisson integrals and systems of dilated functions
Upper bounds for GCD sums of the form are established, where is any sequence of distinct positive integers and ; the estimate for solves in particular a problem of Dyer and Harman from 1986, and the estimates are optimal except possibly for . The method of proof is based on identifying the sum as a certain Poisson integral on a polydisc; as a byproduct, estimates for the largest eigenvalues of the associated GCD matrices are also found. The bounds for such GCD sums are used to establish...