The range of the sum-of-proper-divisors function
Answering a question of Erdős, we show that a positive proportion of even numbers are in the form s(n), where s(n) = σ(n) - n, the sum of proper divisors of n.
Answering a question of Erdős, we show that a positive proportion of even numbers are in the form s(n), where s(n) = σ(n) - n, the sum of proper divisors of n.
The variation of the rank of elliptic curves over in families of quadratic twists has been extensively studied by Gouvêa, Mazur, Stewart, Top, Rubin and Silverberg. It is known, for example, that any elliptic curve over admits infinitely many quadratic twists of rank . Most elliptic curves have even infinitely many twists of rank and examples of elliptic curves with infinitely many twists of rank are known. There are also certain density results. This paper studies the variation of the...
We consider the expansion of the real field by the group of rational points of an elliptic curve over the rational numbers. We prove a completeness result, followed by a quantifier elimination result. Moreover we show that open sets definable in that structure are semialgebraic.
In this paper we derive, using the Gauss summation theorem for hypergeometric series, a simple integral expression for the reciprocal of Euler’s beta function. This expression is similar in form to several well-known integrals for the beta function itself.We then apply our new formula to the study of Whittaker functions, which are special functions that arise in the Fourier theory for automorphic forms on the general linear group. Specifically, we deduce explicit integral representations of “fundamental”...
The reciprocal super Catalan matrix has entries [...] . Explicit formulæ for its LU-decomposition, the LU-decomposition of its inverse, and some related matrices are obtained. For all results, q-analogues are also presented.
Let be a pure cubic field, with , where is a cube-free integer. We will determine the reduced ideals of the order of which coincides with the maximal order of in the case where is square-free and .