On the error term concerning the number of subgroups of the groups with m,n\le x
Volume 183 / 2018
Acta Arithmetica 183 (2018), 285-299
MSC: Primary 11A25, 11N37; Secondary 20K01, 20K27.
DOI: 10.4064/aa171111-7-2
Published online: 23 March 2018
Abstract
Let \mathbb{Z}_{m} be the additive group of residue classes modulo m. Let s(m,n) and c(m,n) denote the total number of subgroups and the number of cyclic subgroups of the group \mathbb{Z}_{m}\times \mathbb{Z}_{n}, respectively, where m and n are arbitrary positive integers. W. G. Nowak and L. Tóth (2014) investigated the asymptotic behavior of the sums \sum_{m,n\leq x} s(m,n) and \sum_{m,n\leq x} c(m,n). We improve the error terms of these asymptotic formulas.