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In this paper, we prove the conjecture that if there is an odd perfect number, then there are infinitely many of them.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-10 Jose Arnaldo Bebita Dris

A perfect number is a number whose divisors add up to twice the number itself. The existence of odd perfect numbers is a millennia-old unsolved problem. This note proposes a proof of the nonexistence of odd perfect numbers. More generally,…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2011-03-04 N. A. Carella

This paper completes the classification of maximal unrefinable partitions, extending a previous work of Aragona et al. devoted only to the case of triangular numbers. We show that the number of maximal unrefinable partitions of an integer…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Riccardo Aragona , Lorenzo Campioni , Roberto Civino

While the general form of even perfect numbers is well-known, the existence or non-existence of odd perfect numbers is still an open problem. We address this problem and prove that if a natural number is odd, then it's not perfect.

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2023-03-20 Hooshang Saeid-Nia

We present a collection of results concerning the location and distribution of very triangular numbers among triangular numbers, including the twin very triangular number theorem, the existence of arbitrarily long gaps between -- and an…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2023-08-31 Audrey Baumheckel , Tamás Forgács

Some new results concerning the equation $\sigma(N)=aM, \sigma(M)=bN$ are proved. As a corollary, there are only finitely many odd superperfect numbers with a fixed number of distinct prime factors.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Tomohiro Yamada

We study whether sufficiently large integers can be written in the form cp+T_x, where p is either zero or a prime congruent to r mod d, and T_x=x(x+1)/2 is a triangular number. We also investigate whether there are infinitely many positive…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2009-02-08 Zhi-Wei Sun

A perfect number is a positive integer n such that n equals the sum of all positive integer divisors of n that are less than n. That is, although n is a divisor of n, n is excluded from this sum. Thus 6 = 1 + 2 + 3 is perfect, but 12 < 1 +…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-09-22 John Cowles , Ruben Gamboa

We show that if there exists an integer subject to some congruence conditions that cannot be written as the sum of the norm of an ideal in $\mathbb{Z}[\exp(2\pi i/2^k)]$ and at most $k$ powers of $2$, $k\geq 3$, then there are infinitely…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-10-19 Timothy Foo

This document seeks to prove there are infinitely many primes whose difference is 2, referred to as twin prime pairs. This proof's methodology involves constructing a function that approximates the number of positive integers, less than a…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2017-11-01 Kevin B. Espinet

For any positive integer $k$, we show that infinitely often, perfect $k$-th powers appear inside very long gaps between consecutive prime numbers, that is, gaps of size $$ c_k \frac{\log p \log_2 p \log_4 p}{(\log_3 p)^2}, $$ where $p$ is…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-25 Kevin Ford , D. R. Heath-Brown , Sergei Konyagin

We prove some results on the distance between two perfect numbers using Ramanujan-Nagell type equations.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-06-10 Philippe Ellia , Paolo Menegatti

We show that there are infinitely many square numbers , which are constrocted by putting two square numbers together , that non of them are divisible by $10$ . We also investigate the interesting properties of some square numbers.

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Farid Jokar

The aim of this note is to show that any even perfect number, other than $6$, can be written as the sum of 5 cubes of natural numbers. We also conjecture that any even perfect number, other than $6$, can be written as the sum of only 3…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-04-29 Bakir Farhi

Euler showed that there are infinitely many triangular numbers that are three times other triangular numbers. In general, it is an easy consequence of the Pell equation that for a given square-free m > 1, the relation P=mP' is satisfied by…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-11 Jasbir S. Chahal , Michael Griffin , Nathan Priddis

We prove that the mapping class group of a Heegaard splitting with a distance of at least 3 is finite. However, we have constructed a counterexample with a distance of 2 that disproves this assertion. In addition, the fact that the mapping…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Yanqing Zou

A well-known conjecture asserts that there are infinitely many primes $p$ for which $p - 1$ is a perfect square. We obtain upper and lower bounds of matching order on the number of pairs of distinct primes $p,q \le x$ for which $(p - 1)(q -…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-23 Tristan Freiberg , Carl Pomerance

Richard Guy asked the following question: can we find a triangle with rational sides, medians, and area? Such a triangle is called a \emph{perfect triangle} and no example has been found to date. It is widely believed that such a triangle…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-16 Mehdi Makhul

In this paper, we prove that for any $a,M\in \mathbb N$ with $(a,M)=1$, there are infinitely many Carmichael numbers $m$ such that $m\equiv a$ mod $M$

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Thomas Wright

The three distance theorem (also known as the three gap theorem or Steinhaus problem) states that, for any given real number $\alpha$ and integer $N$, there are at most three values for the distances between consecutive elements of the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Alan Haynes , Jens Marklof
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