An extremal result for divisor functions (Q1074639)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3948395
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An extremal result for divisor functions
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3948395

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    An extremal result for divisor functions (English)
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    Some obvious inequalities for Bernoulli's periodic function \(B(x)=x-[x]- 1/2\) lead to simple estimates of the series \(\sum^{\infty}_{m=1}B(x/m)m^{-a}\) for \(a>1\). These are applied to the sum of the a-th power of the divisor function.
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    sum of powers of divisors
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    Bernoulli function
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