Product of Divisors

Theorem

For any integer n1, the product of the positive divisors of n is given by

knk=nd(n)2

where d is the divisor counting function.

Proof

We consider the product of square divisors and then, write the permuted product using the fact that a nk also varies over all divisors of n as k does.

knk2=knknk=knn=nd(n)knk=nd(n)2.