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      <dochead>Research Article</dochead>
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            <p>An upper bound for the 
<inline-formula><graphic file="1029-242X-2006-25020-i1.gif"/></inline-formula> norm of a GCD-related matrix</p>
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            <au id="A1" ca="yes"><snm>Haukkanen</snm><fnm>Pentti</fnm><insr iid="I1"/><email>mapehau@uta.fi</email></au>
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            <ins id="I1"><p>Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Philosophy, University of Tampere, Tampere 33014, Finland</p></ins>
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         <source>Journal of Inequalities and Applications</source>
         <issn>1029-242X</issn>
         <pubdate>2006</pubdate>
         <volume>2006</volume>
         <issue>1</issue>
         <fpage>25020</fpage>
         <url>http://www.journalofinequalitiesandapplications.com/content/2006/1/25020</url>
         <xrefbib><pubid idtype="doi">10.1155/JIA/2006/25020</pubid></xrefbib>
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      <cpyrt><year>2006</year><collab>Haukkanen</collab><note>This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</note></cpyrt>
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            <p>We find an upper bound for the 
<inline-formula><graphic file="1029-242X-2006-25020-i2.gif"/></inline-formula> norm of the 
<inline-formula><graphic file="1029-242X-2006-25020-i3.gif"/></inline-formula> matrix whose 
<inline-formula><graphic file="1029-242X-2006-25020-i4.gif"/></inline-formula> entry is 
<inline-formula><graphic file="1029-242X-2006-25020-i5.gif"/></inline-formula>, where 
<inline-formula><graphic file="1029-242X-2006-25020-i6.gif"/></inline-formula> and 
<inline-formula><graphic file="1029-242X-2006-25020-i7.gif"/></inline-formula> are the greatest common divisor and the least common multiple of 
<inline-formula><graphic file="1029-242X-2006-25020-i8.gif"/></inline-formula> and 
<inline-formula><graphic file="1029-242X-2006-25020-i9.gif"/></inline-formula> and where 
<inline-formula><graphic file="1029-242X-2006-25020-i10.gif"/></inline-formula> and 
<inline-formula><graphic file="1029-242X-2006-25020-i11.gif"/></inline-formula> are real numbers. In fact, we show that if 
<inline-formula><graphic file="1029-242X-2006-25020-i12.gif"/></inline-formula> and 
<inline-formula><graphic file="1029-242X-2006-25020-i13.gif"/></inline-formula>, then 
<inline-formula><graphic file="1029-242X-2006-25020-i14.gif"/></inline-formula> for all positive integers 
<inline-formula><graphic file="1029-242X-2006-25020-i15.gif"/></inline-formula>, where 
<inline-formula><graphic file="1029-242X-2006-25020-i16.gif"/></inline-formula> is the Riemann zeta function.</p>
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