On primary Carmichael numbers
Abstract
The primary Carmichael numbers were recently introduced as a special subset of the Carmichael numbers. A primary Carmichael number has the unique property that holds for each prime factor , where is the sum of the base- digits of . The first such number is Ramanujan's famous taxicab number . Due to Chernick, all Carmichael numbers with three factors can be constructed by certain squarefree polynomials , the simplest one being . We show that the values of any obey a special decomposition for all and besides certain exceptions also in the case . These cases further imply that if all three factors of are simultaneously odd primes, then is not only a Carmichael number, but also a primary Carmichael number. Together with the exceptional cases, all Carmichael numbers with three factors have at least the property that holds for the greatest prime factor of . Subsequently, we show some connections to taxicab and polygonal numbers, involving the number as an example again.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1902.11283,
title = {On primary Carmichael numbers},
author = {Bernd C. Kellner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.11283},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
32 pages, 12 tables, final revised version