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The Repeated Divisor Function and Possible Correlation with Highly Composite Numbers

General Mathematics 2019-02-20 v2

Abstract

Let n be a non-null positive integer and d(n)d(n) is the number of positive divisors of n, called the divisor function. Of course, d(n)nd(n) \leq n. d(n)=1d(n) = 1 if and only if n=1n = 1. For n>2n > 2 we have d(n)2d(n) \geq 2 and in this paper we try to find the smallest kk such that d(d(...d(n)...))=2d(d(...d(n)...)) = 2 where the divisor function is applied kk times. At the end of the paper we make a conjecture based on some observations.

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@article{arxiv.1704.00007,
  title  = {The Repeated Divisor Function and Possible Correlation with Highly Composite Numbers},
  author = {Sayak Chakrabarty and Arghya Dutta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.00007},
  year   = {2019}
}

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