An inequality for multiplicative functions

DOI10.1016/0022-314X(92)90122-6MaRDI QIDQ1196910zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kannan Soundararajan

Publication date 16 January 1993

Published in Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-314x(92)90122-6

zbMATH Keywords

divisor sumsinequalitiesmultiplicative function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic functions; related numbers; inversion formulas (11A25) Asymptotic results on arithmetic functions (11N37)

Review text

Let \(k\) be a positive integer and \(f\) a multiplicative function with \(0<f(p)\leq 1/k\) for all primes \(p\). The author shows that, for any squarefree integer \(n\), \[ \sum_{d\mid n} f(d)\leq(k+1)\sum_{d\mid n; d\leq n^{1/(k+1)}}f(d). \] This improves some inequalities of \textit{K. Alladi}, \textit{P. Erdős} and \textit{J. D. Vaaler} [J. Number Theory 31, 183-190 (1989; Zbl 0664.10025)].

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