Sums of proper divisors follow the Erd\H{o}s--Kac law

DOI10.1090/PROC/16167MaRDI QIDQ6370790arXivFDO

Authors Paul Pollack, Lee Troupe

Publication date 20 June 2021

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1090/PROC/16167

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic results on arithmetic functions (11N37) Rate of growth of arithmetic functions (11N56) Other results on the distribution of values or the characterization of arithmetic functions (11N64)

arXiv classification

math.NT

Abstract: Let $s(n)=su{m}_{dmidn,d<n}d$ denote the sum of the proper divisors of $n$. The second-named author proved that $omega(s(n))$ has normal order $loglogn$, the analogue for $s$-values of a classical result of Hardy and Ramanujan. We establish the corresponding ErdH{o}s--Kac theorem: $omega(s(n))$ is asymptotically normally distributed with mean and variance $loglogn$. The same method applies with $s(n)$ replaced by any of several other unconventional arithmetic functions, such as $$, $n-phi(n)$, and $n+au(n)$ ($au$ being the divisor function).

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