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On Representations as a Sum of Consecutive Integers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

W. J. Leveque
W. J. Leveque*
Affiliation:
University of Michigan
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1. Introduction. It is the object of this paper to investigate the function γ(m), the number of representations of m in the form

(1)

where . It is shown that γ(m) is always equal to the number of odd divisors of m, so that for example γ(2k) = 1, this representation being the number 2k itself. From this relationship the average order of γ(m) is deduced ; this result is given in Theorem 2. By a method due to Kac [2], it is shown in §3 that the number of positive integers for which γ(m) does not exceed a rather complicated function of n and ω, a real parameter, is asymptotically nD(ω), where D(ω) is the probability integral

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 2 , 1950 , pp. 399 - 405
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1950

References

[1] Hardy, G. H. and Wright, E. M., An introduction to the theory of numbers (Oxford, 1945).Google Scholar
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