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A note on Ramanujan's arithmetical function τ(n)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. R. Wilton
J. R. Wilton
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Trinity College
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The function τ (n), defined by the equation

is considered by Ramanujan* in his memoir “On certain arithmetical functions”

The associated Diriċhlet series

converges when σ = > σ0, for a sufficiently large positive σ0.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , April 1929 , pp. 121 - 129
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1929

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