On Ramanujan sums of a real variable and a new Ramanujan expansion for the divisor function (Q2127850)

If one replaces in the Ramanujan expansion of an arithmetic function the integer variable \(n\) by a real variable \(x\) and this series converges, one gets a continuation of the arithmetic function on \(\mathbb{R}\). The authors show, that if the Ramanujan coefficients are big, the expanded series diverges on \(\mathbb{R}\setminus\mathbb{Z}\). An example is the sum-of-divisors function \(\sigma_1(x)\). They construct another Ramanujan expansion of \(\sigma_k(n)\), \(k\ge 0\) that locally on \(\mathbb{R}\) interpolates \(\sigma_k(x)\) on \(\mathbb{R}\) for \(k=1\) and \(k=0\).