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Claim. L. Troupe, Divisor sums representable as the sum of two squares, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 148 (2020), no. 10, 4189--4202, Theorem 1.2: the number Bs(x)B_s(x) of n≤xn\le x for which s(n)s(n) is a sum of two squares satisfies Bs(x)≍x/(log⁡x)1/2B_s(x)\asymp x/(\log x)^{1/2} (card). The paper presents this as a special case of the conjecture of Problem 955: the sums of two squares have density zero, and so does their preimage.

Covers. The instance AA = the sums of two squares; the general assertion stays open.

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Acceptance. Refereed: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, a journal. The site's commentary credits the result, but the site labels the problem OPEN, so no curator acceptance is listed.