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Past exam of the analytic number theory and elliptic curves course of the University of Oxford 2008 A 1 Solution by
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A multiplicative arithmetic function has and satisfies whenever are coprime. For a prime power , the divisors are exactly , so there are . Multiplicativity therefore givesFix . If , then for every integer . There are only finitely many primes below the threshold. For each such prime the sequence tends to zero, so its supremum is finite and at least one. ThusThe product is over a fixed finite set, independent of , proving .
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