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The arithmetic mean of the divisors of an integer

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  1. University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois

    Paul T. Bateman, Paul Erdös, Carl Pomerance & E. G. Straus

  2. Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, Hungary

    Paul T. Bateman, Paul Erdös, Carl Pomerance & E. G. Straus

  3. University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

    Paul T. Bateman, Paul Erdös, Carl Pomerance & E. G. Straus

  4. University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

    Paul T. Bateman, Paul Erdös, Carl Pomerance & E. G. Straus

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Dedicated to Emil Grosswald on the occasion of his sixty-eighth birthday.

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Bateman, P.T., Erdös, P., Pomerance, C., Straus, E.G. (1981). The arithmetic mean of the divisors of an integer. In: Knopp, M.I. (eds) Analytic Number Theory. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 899. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0096462

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