Some Identities Related to Ramanujan’s Tau Function

Neville Robbins1
1Mathematics Department San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA 94132 USA

Abstract

Let \(\tau(n)\) denote Ramanujan’s tau function. We obtain an identity that involves \(\tau(n)\) and \(\sigma(n)\), as well as some apparently new congruence properties of \(\tau(n)\) with respect to the moduli \(23\) and \(5\).