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A composite number $n$ is called a Lehmer number when $\phi(n) | n - 1$, where $\phi$ is the Euler totient function. Lehmer's totient problem asks if there exist any composite numbers $n$ such that $\phi(n)| n-1$? No such numbers are known.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-26 Gholam Reza Pourgholi , Hendrik Van Maldeghem

An important unsolved question in number theory is the Lehmer's totient problem that asks whether there exists any composite number $n$ such that $\varphi(n)\mid n-1$, where $\varphi$ is the Euler's totient function. It is known that if any…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-27 Marius Tărnăuceanu

Lehmer's totient problem asks whether there exists any composite number $n$ such that $\varphi(n) \, \mid \, (n-1)$, where $\varphi$ is Euler totient function. It is known that if any such $n$ exists, it must be Carmichael and $n >…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-23 Manuel Norman

A composite positive integer $n$ has the Lehmer property if $\phi(n)$ divides $n-1,$ where $\phi$ is an Euler totient function. In this note we shall prove that if $n$ has the Lehmer property, then $n\leq 2^{2^{K}}-2^{2^{K-1}}$, where $K$…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-07-02 Dominik Burek , Błażej Żmija

A composite positive integer $n$ is said to be a {\it weak Carmichael number} if $$ \sum_{\gcd(k,n)=1\atop 1\le k\le n-1}k^{n-1}\equiv \varphi(n) \pmod{n}. \leqno(1) $$ It is proved that a composite positive integer $n$ is a weak Carmichael…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-05-09 Romeo Meštrović

Lehmer's totient problem consists of determining the set of positive integers $n$ such that $\varphi(n)|n-1$ where $\varphi$ is Euler's totient function. In this paper we introduce the concept of $k$-Lehmer number. A $k$-Lehmer number is a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2012-03-23 Antonio M. Oller-Marcén , José María Grau

The Euler's totient function $ \varphi(n) $ counts the positive integers up to a given integer $ n$ that are relatively prime to $ n $. We solve a problem due to Lehmer that there is no composite number $ n $ such that $ \varphi(n)\mid n-1…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Huan Xiao

A composite number $n$ is called Lehmer when $\phi(n) | n - 1$, where $\phi$ is the Euler totient function. In 1932, D.~H.~Lehmer conjectured that there are no composite Lehmer numbers and showed that Lehmer numbers must be odd and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-26 Gholam Reza Pourgholi

In this paper, we prove that there are infinitely many $n$ for which $rad(\varphi(n))|n-1$ but $n$ is not a Carmichael number. Additionally, we prove that for any $k\geq 3$, there exist infinitely many $n$ such that $\varphi(n)|(n-1)^k$ but…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-25 Nathan McNew , Thomas Wright

We make an analytical proof for Lehmer's totient conjecture. Lehmer conjectured that there is no solution for the congruence equation $n-1\equiv 0~(mod~\phi(n))$ with composite integers,$n$, where $\phi(n)$ denotes Euler's totient function.…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2016-08-30 Ahmad Sabihi

A composite positive integer n is Lehmer if \phi(n) divides n-1, where \phi(n) is the Euler's totient function. No Lehmer number is known, nor has it been proved that they don't exist. In 2007, the second author [7] proved that there is no…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-25 Bernadette Faye , Florian Luca

Lehmer's totient problem asks if there exists a composite number $d$ such that its totient divide $d-1$. In this article we generalize the Lehmer's totient problem in algebraic number fields. We introduce the notion of a Lehmer number.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-01 Konstantinos Smpokos

Let $\lambda(n)$ denote the exponent of the multiplicative group modulo $n$. We show that when $q$ is odd, each coprime residue class modulo $q$ is hit equally often by $\lambda(n)$ as $n$ varies. Under the stronger assumption that…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-27 Paul Pollack

Let $\phi(n)$ be the Euler totient function and $\sigma(n)$ denote the sum of divisors of $n$. In this note, we obtain explicit upper bounds on the number of positive integers $n\leq x$ such that $\phi(\sigma(n)) > cn$ for any $c>0$. This…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-06 Saunak Bhattacharjee , Anup B. Dixit

Let $x$ and $n$ be positive integers. We prove a non-trivial lower bound for $x$, dependant only on $\omega_n$, the number of distinct prime factors of $x^n-1$. By considering the divisibility of $\varphi \mid x^n-1$ for $\varphi \mid n$,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Gustav Kjærbye Bagger

Euler's totient function, $\varphi(n)$, which counts how many of $0,1,\dots,n-1$ are coprime to $n$, has an explicit asymptotic lower bound of $n/\log \log n$, modulo some constant. In this note, we generalise $\varphi$; given an…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Vlad Robu

Let $\phi(\cdot)$ and $\sigma(\cdot)$ denote the Euler function and the sum of divisors function, respectively. In this paper, we give a lower bound for the number of positive integers $m\le x$ for which the equation $m=n-\phi(n)$ has no…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 William D. Banks , Florian Luca

An existence of a nontrivial solution in some `weaker' sense of the following system of equations \begin{align*} (-\Delta)^{s}u+l(x)\phi u+w(x)|u|^{k-1}u&=\mu~\text{in}~\Omega\nonumber\\ (-\Delta)^{s}\phi&=…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Amita Soni , D. Choudhuri

Let $\phi(n)$ be the Euler totient function and $\phi_k(n)$ its $k$-fold iterate. In this note, we improve the upper bound for the number of positive $n\leqslant x$ such that $\phi_{k+1}(n)\geqslant cn$. Comparing with the upper bound which…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Pei Gao , Qiyu Yang

In 2000 Deaconescu raised a question whether there exists a composite $n$ for which $S_2(n)|\phi(n)-1$, where $\phi(n)$ is Euler's function and $S_2(n)$ is Schemmel's totient function. In this paper we prove that any such $n$ is odd,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Elchin Hasanalizade
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