Mean square of zeta function, circle problem and divisor problem revisited

Abstract

This paper is closely related to the recent work [BW17] of the same authors and our purpose is to elaborate more on some of the results and methods from [BW17]. More specifically our goal is two-fold. Firstly, we will indicate how a simple variant related to Section 4 in [BW17] leads to the following improvements of Theorem 3 in [BW17]