Arithmetic functions: something old, something new
Presenter
May 5, 2017
Keywords:
- perfect numbers
- sums of divisors
- abundant numbers
- sums of divisors of abundant numbers
- inverse images of sum of divisors functions
MSC:
- 11A25
- 11N56
- 11N60
- 11A05
- 11N37
Abstract
I will discuss recent joint work on the value distribution of arithmetic functions. The problems discussed have in common that they owe their origin --- in one way or another --- to the fascination of the ancients with sums of divisors