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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 May 2016
We study the average value of the divisor function
$\unicode[STIX]{x1D70F}(n)$ for
$n\leqslant x$ with
$n\equiv a~\text{mod}~q$ . The divisor function is known to be evenly distributed over arithmetic progressions for all
$q$ that are a little smaller than
$x^{2/3}$ . We show how to go past this barrier when
$q=p^{k}$ for odd primes
$p$ and any fixed integer
$k\geqslant 7$ .