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A335080
First elements of maximal isospectral chains of length 1, or, equivalently, numbers with spectral basis of index 1.
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6, 10, 12, 14, 15, 18, 20, 21, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 44, 45, 46, 48, 50, 51, 52, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 62, 63, 65, 66, 68, 69, 72, 74, 75, 76, 77, 80, 82, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 98, 99, 100, 102, 104, 105, 106
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Isospectral Chain Conjecture: There exist isospectral chains of any positive length.
A number N is the first element of a maximal isospectral chain of length n if it is not part of an isospectral chain of length greater than n.
Two integers are isospectral if they have the same spectral basis. An isospectral chain of length n is a sequence N1,...,Nn of integers with the same spectral basis such that N1=2*N2=...=n*Nn and index(Nk)=k. A chain is maximal if it cannot be extended to an isospectral chain of length n+1.
The spectral sum of an integer N with at least two prime factors is the sum of the elements of its spectral basis, and is of the form k*N+1, where k is a positive integer. Then we say that N has index k, index(N)=k.
LINKS
Garret Sobczyk, The Missing Spectral Basis in Algebra and Number Theory, The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 108, No. 4 (April 2001), pp. 336-346.
EXAMPLE
a(1) = 6 since 6 has spectral basis {3,4} and, since 3+4=1*6+1, index(6) = 1.
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Walter Kehowski, May 24 2020
STATUS
approved