• 1 Tata Institute for Fundamental Research

The main theme of this paper is to systematize the Hardy-Landau $\Omega$ results and the Hardy $\Omega_{\pm}$ results on the divisor problem and the circle problem. The method of ours is general enough to include the abelian group problem and the results of Richert and the later modifications by Warlimont, and in fact theorem 6 of ours is an improvement of their results. All our results are effective as in our earlier paper II with the same title. Some of our results are new.