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On the Binary Additive Divisor Problem

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We show that the methods of Motohashi and Meurman yield the same upper bound on the error term in the binary additive divisor problem. To this end, we improve an estimate in the proof of Motohashi.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Turku, Turku, 20014, Finland

    Olga G. Balkanova

  2. Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Gubkina 8, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    Dmitry A. Frolenkov

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Published in Russian in Trudy Matematicheskogo Instituta imeni V.A. Steklova, 2017, Vol. 299, pp. 50–55.

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Balkanova, O.G., Frolenkov, D.A. On the Binary Additive Divisor Problem. Proc. Steklov Inst. Math. 299, 44–49 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0081543817080028

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