On prime divisors of Mersenne numbers
It is shown that Dickson’s Conjecture about primes in linear polynomials implies that if f is a reducible quadratic polynomial with integral coefficients and non-zero discriminant then for every r there exists an integer such that the polynomial represents at least r distinct primes.
If n is a positive integer such that ϕ(n)σ(n) = m² for some positive integer m, then m ≤ n. We put m = n-a and we study the positive integers a arising in this way.