Improving an inequality for the divisor function

2017/11/16 by Lay, Jeffrey P. S.
#11N37 (Primary) 11N36 #11N56 #11N64 (Secondary) #FOS: Mathematics #Number Theory (math.NT)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1711.05924

Abstract

We improve using elementary means an explicit bound on the divisor function due to Friedlander and Iwaniec. Consequently we modestly improve a result regarding a sieving inequality for Gaussian sequences.

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