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Divisibility and Sequence Properties of $\sigma^+$ and $\varphi^+$

General Mathematics 2025-12-11 v2

Abstract

Inspired by Lehmer's and Deaconescu's conjectures, as well as various analogue problems concerning Euler's totient function φ(n)\varphi(n), Schemmel's totient function S2(n)S_{2}(n), Jordan totient function JkJ_k, and the unitary totient function φ(n)\varphi^{*}(n), we investigate analogous divisibility problems involving the functions σ(n)\sigma(n), σ+(n)\sigma^{+}(n), and φ+(n)\varphi^{+}(n). Further, we establish some interesting properties of the sequences {σ+(n)}n=1\left\{\sigma^+(n)\right\}_{n=1}^\infty and {φ+(n)}n=1\left\{\varphi^+(n)\right\}_{n=1}^\infty, in particular, we prove that each of these sequences contains infinitely many arithmetic progressions of length 33.

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@article{arxiv.2508.11660,
  title  = {Divisibility and Sequence Properties of $\sigma^+$ and $\varphi^+$},
  author = {Sagar Mandal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.11660},
  year   = {2025}
}

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