On the congruence $1^m + 2^m + \dotsb + m^m \equiv n \pmod{m}$ with $n | m$
Number Theory
2015-06-17 v7
Abstract
We show that if the congruence above holds and , then the quotient satisfies , where is prime. The only known solutions of the latter congruence are and the eight known primary pseudoperfect numbers and . Fixing , we prove that the set of positive integers satisfying the congruence in the title, with , is empty in case , and in the other eight cases has an asymptotic density between bounds in that we provide.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1309.7941,
title = {On the congruence $1^m + 2^m + \dotsb + m^m \equiv n \pmod{m}$ with $n | m$},
author = {José María Grau and Antonio M. Oller-Marcén and Jonathan Sondow},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.7941},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
13 pages, 1 table; introduced proofs of Lemma 5 and Theorem 5; notational changes ($\mathfrak{M}_Q\to \mathfrak{N}_Q$) and some typos corrected