Improved Average Bounds for an Inequality of Alladi, Erdös, and Vaaler

Cooper O'Kuhn

Published: 2025/9/16

Abstract

We prove an averaged version of a claim suspected to be true by Alladi, Erd\"os, and Vaaler. Qualitatively, the result states that a divisor sum of a multiplicative function, which obeys certain size constraints, derives most of its value from its "small" divisors.