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An integer $n\ge 1$ is said to be practical if every natural number $ m \le n$ can be expressed as a sum of distinct positive divisors of $n$. The number of practical numbers up to $x$ is asymptotic to $c x/\log x$, where $c$ is a constant.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-30 Andreas Weingartner

A positive integer $n$ is called practical if all integers between $1$ and $n$ can be written as a sum of distinct divisors of $n$. We give an asymptotic estimate for the number of integers $\le x$ which have a practical divisor $\ge y$.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Andreas Weingartner

A positive integer $n$ is practical if every $m \leq n$ can be written as a sum of distinct divisors of $n$. One can generalize the concept of practical numbers by applying an arithmetic function $f$ to each of the divisors of $n$ and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-03-24 Nicholas Schwab , Lola Thompson

We give asymptotic estimates for the mean number of divisors of integers without small prime factors, integers with bounded ratios of consecutive divisors, and for practical numbers. In the last case, this confirms a conjecture of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Andreas Weingartner

A "practical number" is a positive integer $n$ such that every positive integer less than $n$ can be written as a sum of distinct divisors of $n$. We prove that most of the binomial coefficients are practical numbers. Precisely, letting…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Paolo Leonetti , Carlo Sanna

A positive integer $n$ is called $\varphi$-practical if the polynomial $X^n-1$ has a divisor in $\mathbb{Z}[X]$ of every degree up to $n$. In this paper, we show that the count of $\varphi$-practical numbers in $[1, x]$ is asymptotic to $C…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-11-12 Carl Pomerance , Lola Thompson , Andreas Weingartner

A number $n$ is practical if every integer in $[1,n]$ can be expressed as a subset sum of the positive divisors of $n$. We consider the distribution of practical numbers that are also shifted primes, improving a theorem of Guo and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Carl Pomerance , Andreas Weingartner

A practical number is a positive integer $n$ such that all positive integers less than $n$ can be written as a sum of distinct divisors of $n$. Leonetti and Sanna proved that, as $x \to +\infty$, the central binomial coefficient…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-14 Carlo Sanna

Following Srinivasan, an integer n\geq 1 is called practical if every natural number in [1,n] can be written as a sum of distinct divisors of n. This motivates us to define f(n) as the largest integer with the property that all of 1, 2,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2012-01-17 Paul Pollack , Lola Thompson

Practical numbers are positive integers $n$ such that every positive integer less than or equal to $n$ can be written as a sum of distinct positive divisors of $n$. In this paper, we show that all positive integers can be written as a sum…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Sai Teja Somu , Duc Van Khanh Tran

A positive integer $n$ is said to be a practical number if every integer in $[1,n]$ can be represented as the sum of distinct divisors of $n$. In this article, we consider practical numbers of a given polynomial form. We give a necessary…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-12-08 Sai Teja Somu , Ting Hon Stanford Li , Andrzej Kukla

Iannucci considered the positive divisors of a natural number $n$ that do not exceed the square root of $n$ and found all numbers whose such divisors are in arithmetic progression. Continuing the work, we define large divisors to be…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-30 Hung Viet Chu

Let $A$ be a set of positive integers. We define a positive integer $n$ as an $A$-practical number if every positive integer from the set $\left\{1,\ldots ,\sum_{d\in A, d\mid n}d\right\}$ can be written as a sum of distinct divisors of $n$…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-29 Andrzej Kukla , Piotr Miska

In this paper we study practical numbers of some special forms. For any integers $b\ge0$ and $c>0$, we show that if $n^2+bn+c$ is practical for some integer $n>1$, then there are infinitely many nonnegative integers $n$ with $n^2+bn+c$…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-12 Li-Yuan Wang , Zhi-Wei Sun

Asymptotic formulae are established for the number of natural numbers $m$ with largest square-free divisor not exceeding $m^{\vartheta}$, for any fixed positive parameter $\vartheta$. Related counting functions are also considered.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Jörg Brüdern , Olivier Robert

We prove an explicit asymptotic formula for the logarithm of the minimal ranks of $n$-universal lattices over the ring of integers of totally real number fields. We also show that, for any constant $C > 0$ and $n \geq 3$, there are only…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Dayoon Park , Robin Visser , Pavlo Yatsyna , Jongheun Yoon

We show that for integers $n$, whose ratios of consecutive divisors are bounded above by an arbitrary constant, the normal order of the number of prime factors is $C \log \log n$, where $C=(1-e^{-\gamma})^{-1} = 2.280...$ and $\gamma$ is…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-15 Andreas Weingartner

Fix a field $F$. In this paper, we study the sets $\D_F(n) \subset [0,n]$ defined by [\D_F(n):= {0 \leq m \leq n: T^n-1\text{has a divisor of degree $m$ in} F[T]}.] When $\D_F(n)$ consists of all integers $m$ with $0 \leq m \leq n$, so that…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2012-06-12 Paul Pollack , Lola Thompson

An integer $n$ is said to be \textit{arithmetic} if the arithmetic mean of its divisors is an integer. In this paper, using properties of the factorization of values of cyclotomic polynomials, we characterize arithmetic numbers. As an…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2012-06-11 Antonio M. Oller-Marcén

A well-known conjecture asserts that, for any given positive real number $\lambda$ and nonnegative integer $m$, the proportion of positive integers $n \le x$ for which the interval $(n,n + \lambda\log n]$ contains exactly $m$ primes is…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-04 Tristan Freiberg
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