The Dirichlet divisor problem over square-free integers and unitary convolutions

Abstract

We obtain an asymptotic formula for the sum $\tilde{D}_2$ of the divisors of all square-free integers less than or equal to $x$, with error term $O(x^{1/2 + \epsilon})$. This improves the error term $O(x^{3/4 + \epsilon})$ presented in [7] obtained via analytical methods. Our approach is elementary and it is based on the connections between the function $\tilde{D}_2$ and unitary convolutions.