Solution

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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 gives
This is the Möbius divisor-sum identity.
For and , the Hardy-Littlewood approximation to the Riemann zeta function at cutoff gives
Indeed , and the omitted integral term has size at most . Multiply by . Its absolute value is at most
where 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 is
The displayed error is uniform in and the stated height interval.

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