Divisor sums representable as the sum of two squares

DOI10.1090/PROC/15104zbMATH Open1476.11128arXiv1902.11171OpenAlexW3013422229MaRDI QIDQ5117316FDOQ5117316

Lee Troupe

Publication date: 20 August 2020

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $s(n)$ denote the sum of the proper divisors of the natural number $n$. We show that the number of $nleqx$ such that $s(n)$ is a sum of two squares has order of magnitude $x/sqrtlogx$, which agrees with the count of $nleqx$ which are a sum of two squares. Our result confirms a special case of a conjecture of Erd{H o}s, Granville, Pomerance and Spiro, who in a 1990 paper asserted that if $mathcalAsubsetmathbbN$ has asymptotic density zero (e.g. if $mathcalA$ is the set of $nleqx$ which are a sum of two squares), then $s^{-1}(mathcalA)$ also has asymptotic density zero.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.11171

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zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic densitydivisor sums

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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