On a variant of the prime number theorem (Q6187120)

Let \(\Lambda(n)\) be the von Mangdolt function, \(\tau_{k}(n)\) be the generalized divisor function denoting the number of representations of \(n\) as product of \(k\) natural numbers, and \[ \tau_{(2)}(n)= \sum_{\substack{d|n\\ d\in\mathcal{Q}_{2}}}1 \] be the square-free divisor function, where \(\mathcal{Q}_{2}\) is the set of positive square-free integers. Improving some previously known results, in the paper under review, the author proves that for \(f=\Lambda\) and \(f=\tau_k\), \[ S_f(x)=\sum_{1\leq n\leq x}f \left(\left[\frac{x}{n}\right]\right)=c_fx +O\left(x^{7/15+1/195+\varepsilon}\right), \] where \(c_f=\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} f(n)/(n(n+1))\) and \(\varepsilon\) is an arbitrary small positive constant. For \(f=\tau_{(2)}\), the author proves similar result with \(O\left(x^{107/229+\varepsilon}\right)\). The proof of the above approximations based on some results on the exponential sums. Accordingly, the author gives possibility of some improvements on the exponent in the error terms, choosing some certain exponential pairs.