O číselnoteoretickej funkcii
We show that there is an effectively computable upper bound of odd perfect numbers whose Euler factors are powers of fixed exponent.
Un intero positivo si dice pratico se ogni intero con può essere espresso come una somma di divisori distinti positivi di . In questo articolo è affrontato il problema dell'esistenza di infinite cinquine di numeri pratici della forma .
A homothetic arithmetic function of ratio is a function such that for every . Periodic arithmetic funtions are always homothetic, while the converse is not true in general. In this paper we study homothetic and periodic arithmetic functions. In particular we give an upper bound for the number of elements of in terms of the period and the ratio of .
The identical equation for multiplicative functions established by R. Vaidyanathaswamy in the case of Dirichlet convolution in 1931 has been generalized to multiplicativity preserving -convolutions satisfying certain conditions (cf. [7]) which can be called as Lehmer-Narkiewicz convolutions for some reasons. In this paper we prove the converse.
For any positive integer n let ϕ(n) and σ(n) be the Euler function of n and the sum of divisors of n, respectively. In [5], Mąkowski and Schinzel conjectured that the inequality σ(ϕ(n)) ≥ n/2 holds for all positive integers n. We show that the lower density of the set of positive integers satisfying the above inequality is at least 0.74.
Let be the sequence of all primes in ascending order. Using explicit estimates from the prime number theory, we show that if , then which improves a previous result of the second author.