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On amicable tuples

Number Theory 2017-11-21 v1

Abstract

For an integer k2k\ge2, a tuple of kk positive integers (Mi)i=1k(M_i)_{i=1}^{k} is called an amicable kk-tuple if the equation σ(M1)==σ(Mk)=M1++Mk \sigma(M_1)=\cdots=\sigma(M_k)=M_1+\cdots+M_k holds. This is a generalization of amicable pairs. An amicable pair is a pair of distinct positive integers each of which is the sum of the proper divisors of the other. Gmelin (1917) conjectured that there is no relatively prime amicable pairs and Artjuhov (1975) and Borho (1974) proved that for any fixed positive integer KK, there are only finitely many relatively prime amicable pairs (M,N)(M,N) with ω(MN)=K\omega(MN)=K. Recently, Pollack (2015) obtained an upper bound MN<(2K)2K2 MN<(2K)^{2^{K^2}} for such amicable pairs. In this paper, we improve this upper bound to MN<π2624K22K MN<\frac{\pi^2}{6}2^{4^K-2\cdot 2^K} and generalize this bound to some class of general amicable tuples.

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@article{arxiv.1711.06847,
  title  = {On amicable tuples},
  author = {Yuta Suzuki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.06847},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

23 pages; C program source code is included with source documents