OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
LINKS
Amiram Eldar, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000 (terms 1..1000 from Vincenzo Librandi)
K. Nageswara Rao, On the unitary analogues of certain totients, Monatsh. Math., Vol. 70, No. 2 (1966), pp. 149-154.
R. J. Mathar, Survey of Dirichlet series of multiplicative arithmetic functions, arXiv:1106.4038 [math.NT], 2011-2012, section 4.2.4.
Nicuşor Minculete, Some inequalities about certain arithmetic functions, Ann. Univ. Craiova - Math. Comp. Sci., Vol. 38, No. 1 (2011), pp. 83-91.
FORMULA
Multiplicative with a(p^e) = p^(2*e)-1, e>0.
a(n) = A047994(n^2).
a(n) = Sum_{d|n, gcd(d, n/d) = 1} (-1)^omega(d) * (n/d)^2. - Amiram Eldar, Sep 12 2020
Sum_{k>=1} 1/a(k) = 1.7789153256588699707937240866939851480088485084691145802685706798681731662... - Vaclav Kotesovec, Sep 20 2020
Sum_{k=1..n} a(k) ~ c * n^3, where c = (zeta(3)/3) * Product_{p prime} (1 - 2/p^3 + 1/p^4) = 0.298388788003... . - Amiram Eldar, Nov 05 2022
MATHEMATICA
a[n_] := Times @@ (#[[1]]^#[[2]] - 1 & ) /@ FactorInteger[n^2]; a[1] = 1; Table[a[n], {n, 1, 60}] (* Jean-François Alcover, Sep 03 2012 *)
PROG
(PARI) a(n) = {my(f = factor(n)); prod(i = 1, #f~, f[i, 1]^(2*f[i, 2])-1); } \\ Amiram Eldar, Nov 05 2022
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy,mult
AUTHOR
R. J. Mathar, Jun 01 2011
STATUS
approved