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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 iii Paper 25 5 b Solution by
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The Möbius function has , vanishes on integers divisible by a square of a prime, and equals on a product of distinct primes. Factoring the divisor sum prime by prime givesThis is the Möbius divisor-sum identity.
For and , the Hardy-Littlewood approximation to the Riemann zeta function at cutoff givesIndeed , and the omitted integral term has size at most . Multiply by . Its absolute value is at mostwhere the elementary inequality follows from . Reindexing the finite double sum yields coefficients , with no terms for . For all divisors meet both restrictions, so the Möbius divisor-sum identity gives and for . Hence the truncated Möbius inverse identity for the Riemann zeta function isThe displayed error is uniform in and the stated height interval.
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