Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Author(s): Yuk-Kam Lau; Kai-Man Tsang
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 133 (2005), 1283-1290.
MSC (2000): Primary 11N60
Posted: December 15, 2004
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Abstract: We derive an explicit formula for the moments of the probability density function of a class of functions. An application of this shows that the density function of the error term in the Pilz divisor problem is asymmetric.

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Yuk-Kam Lau
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
Email: yklau@maths.hku.hk

Kai-Man Tsang
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
Email: kmtsang@maths.hku.hk

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-04-07825-6
PII: S 0002-9939(04)07825-6
Received by editor(s): November 11, 2003
Posted: December 15, 2004
Communicated by: David E. Rohrlich
Copyright of article: Copyright 2004, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.

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