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Erd\H{o}s first conjectured that infinitely often we have $\varphi(n) = \sigma(m)$, where $\varphi$ is the Euler totient function and $\sigma$ is the sum of divisor function. This was proven true by Ford, Luca and Pomerance in 2010. We ask…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-09-07 Patrick Meisner

In this article, we present relations for the Euler totient function $\varphi(n)$ and the number of divisors $\tau(n)$ in terms of finite sums of integer parts of rational numbers or greatest common divisors of pairs of integers. Some of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Jean-Christophe Pain

We show, conditional on a uniform version of the prime k-tuples conjecture, that there are x(log x)^{-1+o(1)} numbers not exceeding x common to the ranges of Euler's function phi(n) and the sum-of-divisors function sigma(m).

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Kevin Ford , Paul Pollack

Let $\sigma(n)$ denote the sum of the positive divisors of $n$. We prove that for any positive integer $k$, there is a number $m$ for which the equation $\sigma(x)=m$ has exactly $k$ solutions, settling a conjecture of Sierpi\'nski from…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-21 Kevin Ford , Sergei Konyagin

In this short, we study sums of the shape $\sum_{n\leqslant x}{f([x/n])}/{[x/n]},$ where $f$ is Euler totient function $\varphi$, Dedekind function $\Psi$, sum-of-divisors function $\sigma$ or the alternating sum-of-divisors function…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-09-08 Jing Ma , Huayan Sun

Recently, there has been some interest in values of arithmetical functions on members of special sequences, such as Euler's totient function $\phi$ on factorials, linear recurrences, etc. In this article, we investigate, for given positive…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-19 Ayan Nath , Abhishek Jha

We consider the distribution in residue classes modulo primes $p$ of Euler's totient function $\phi(n)$ and the sum-of-proper-divisors function $s(n):=\sigma(n)-n$. We prove that the values $\phi(n)$, for $n\le x$, that are coprime to $p$…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-05-28 Noah Lebowitz-Lockard , Paul Pollack , Akash Singha Roy

For a function $f\colon \mathbb{N}\to\mathbb{N}$, define $N^{\times}_{f}(x)=\#\{n\leq x: n=kf(k) \mbox{ for some $k$} \}$. Let $\tau(n)=\sum_{d|n}1$ be the divisor function, $\omega(n)=\sum_{p|n}1$ be the prime divisor function, and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-10-03 Mikhail R. Gabdullin , Vitalii V. Iudelevich , Florian Luca

In 1963, Edward Spence published a proof of the following With $\phi$ being Euler totient function, if $n>1$ is an integer, and if \begin{equation*} 0<a_1<\cdots<a_{\phi(n)}<n, \end{equation*} are the positive integers less than $n$,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Steven Brown

Inspired by Lehmer's and Deaconescu's conjectures, as well as various analogue problems concerning Euler's totient function $\varphi(n)$, Schemmel's totient function $S_{2}(n)$, Jordan totient function $J_k$, and the unitary totient…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Sagar Mandal

Let $\sigma(n)$ denotes the sum of divisors function of a positive integer $n$. Robin proved that the Riemann hypothesis is true if and only if the inequality $\sigma(n) < e^{\gamma}n \log \log n$ holds for every positive integer $n \geq…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Christian Axler

We study the exact extremal orders of compositions $f(g(n))$ of certain arithmetical functions, including the functions $\sigma(n)$, $\phi(n)$, $\sigma^*(n)$ and $\phi^*(n)$, representing the sum of divisors of $n$, Euler's function and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2008-09-01 József Sándor , László Tóth

The upper bound and the lower bound of average numbers of divisors of Euler Phi function and Carmichael Lambda function are obtained by Luca and Pomerance (see \cite{LP}). We improve the lower bound and provide a heuristic argument which…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-02-23 Sungjin Kim

Let $ x\geq 1 $ be a large number, let $ [x]=x-\{x\} $ be the largest integer function, and let $ \varphi(n)$ be the Euler totient function. The asymptotic formula for the new finite sum over the primes $ \sum_{p\leq…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-07-02 N. A. Carella

We prove simple theorems concerning the maximal order of a large class of multiplicative functions. As an application, we determine the maximal orders of certain functions of the type $\sigma_A(n)= \sum_{d\in A(n)} d$, where A(n) is a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 László Tóth , Eduard Wirsing

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

Let \sigma(n) be the sum of divisors of a positive integer n. Robin's theorem states that the Riemann hypothesis is equivalent to the inequality \sigma(n)<e^\gamma n\log\log n for all n>5040 (\gamma is Euler's constant). It is a natural…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-02-27 Sadegh Nazardonyavi , Semyon Yakubovich

Let $\tau(n)$ stand for the number of divisors of the positive integer $n$. We obtain upper bounds for $\tau(n)$ in terms of $\log n$ and the number of distinct prime factors of $n$.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Jean-Marie De Koninck , Patrick Letendre

Let $\sigma(n)$ to be the sum of the positive divisors of $n$. A number is non-deficient if $\sigma(n) \geq 2n$. We establish new lower bounds for the number of distinct prime factors of an odd non-deficient number in terms of its second…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Joshua Zelinsky

We study the distribution of solutions of equations $\sigma(n)=\sigma(n+k)$ and $\varphi(n)=\varphi(n+k)$. We give new upper bounds for these solutions.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-18 Tomohiro Yamada