A285893 Least number to start a run of exactly n nondecreasing values of sigma (sum of divisors, A000203).

45, 5, 313, 1, 356067536821, 36721681

Offset

1,1

Comments

a(6) = 36721681, see also A028965.

The analogous sequence based on tau = A000005 instead of sigma is A284597.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..6.

Example

We have the following values of sigma for n = 1..10:
         n   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10  ...
   sigma(n)  0   1   1   2   1   2   1   3   2   2  ...
We see a run of 4 nondecreasing values starting at 1, ending at 4, therefore a(4) = 1. There is a run of 2 nondecreasing values starting at 5, ending at 6, therefore a(2) = 5.
Correspondingly, a run of length 1 corresponds to a number n such that sigma(n-1) > sigma(n) > sigma(n+1). This happens first at a(1) = 45.

Mathematica

Function[s, {45}~Join~Map[Function[r, Select[s, Last@ # == r &][[1, 1]]], Range[2, Max[s[[All, -1]] ] ]]]@ Map[{#[[1, 1]], Length@ # + 1} &, DeleteCases[SplitBy[#, #[[-1]] >= 0 &], k_ /; k[[1, -1]] < 0]] &@ MapIndexed[{First@ #2, #1} &, Differences@ Array[DivisorSigma[1, #] &, 10^6]] (* Michael De Vlieger, May 06 2017 *)

Prog

(PARI) alias(A, A285893); A=vector(19); apply(scan(N, s=1, t=sigma(s))=for(k=s+1, N, t>(t=sigma(k))||next; k-s>#A||A[k-s]||printf("a(%d)=%d, ", k-s, s)||A[k-s]=s; s=k); done, [10^8]) \\ Search may be extended using scan(END, START).

Crossrefs

Cf. A000005, A000203, A028965, A284597 (analog for sigma_0), A286287 (analog for omega = A001221), A286288 (analog for bigomega = A001222).

Sequence in context: A037940 A037218 A070818 * A129536 A108909 A033365

Adjacent sequences: A285890 A285891 A285892 * A285894 A285895 A285896

Keyword

nonn,more,hard

Author

M. F. Hasler, May 06 2017

Extensions

a(5)-a(6) from Giovanni Resta, May 07 2017

Status

approved