OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
Meyers (see Guy reference) conjectures that for all r >= 1, the least odd number not in the set {a(i): i < prime(r)} is prime(r+1). - N. J. A. Sloane, Jan 08 2021
Meyers' conjecture would be refuted if and only if for some r there were such a large gap between prime(r) and prime(r+1) that there existed a composite c for which prime(r) < c < a(c) < prime(r+1), in which case (by Bertrand's postulate) c would necessarily be a term of A246281. - Antti Karttunen, Mar 29 2021
a(n) is odd for all n and for each odd m there exists a k with a(k) = m (see A064216). a(n) > n for n > 1: bijection between the odd and all numbers. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Sep 26 2001
a(n) and n have the same number of distinct primes with (A001222) and without multiplicity (A001221). - Michel Marcus, Jun 13 2014
From Antti Karttunen, Nov 01 2019: (Start)
More generally, a(n) has the same prime signature as n, A046523(a(n)) = A046523(n). Also A246277(a(n)) = A246277(n) and A287170(a(n)) = A287170(n).
Many permutations and other sequences that employ prime factorization of n to encode either polynomials, partitions (via Heinz numbers) or multisets in general can be easily defined by using this sequence as one of their constituent functions. See the last line in the Crossrefs section for examples.
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REFERENCES
Richard K. Guy, editor, Problems From Western Number Theory Conferences, Labor Day, 1983, Problem 367 (Proposed by Leroy F. Meyers, The Ohio State U.).
LINKS
Indranil Ghosh, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000 (first 1000 terms from T. D. Noe)
FORMULA
If n = Product p(k)^e(k) then a(n) = Product p(k+1)^e(k).
a(n) = Product_{k=1..A001221(n)} A000040(A049084(A027748(n,k))+1)^A124010(n,k). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Oct 09 2011 [Corrected by Peter Munn, Nov 11 2019]
From Peter Munn, Oct 31 2019: (Start)
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Sum_{k=1..n} a(k) ~ c * n^2, where c = (1/2) * Product_{p prime} ((p^2-p)/(p^2-nextprime(p))) = 2.06399637... . - Amiram Eldar, Nov 18 2022
EXAMPLE
MAPLE
a:= n-> mul(nextprime(i[1])^i[2], i=ifactors(n)[2]):
seq(a(n), n=1..80); # Alois P. Heinz, Sep 13 2017
MATHEMATICA
a[p_?PrimeQ] := a[p] = Prime[ PrimePi[p] + 1]; a[1] = 1; a[n_] := a[n] = Times @@ (a[#1]^#2& @@@ FactorInteger[n]); Table[a[n], {n, 1, 65}] (* Jean-François Alcover, Dec 01 2011, updated Sep 20 2019 *)
Table[Times @@ Map[#1^#2 & @@ # &, FactorInteger[n] /. {p_, e_} /; e > 0 :> {Prime[PrimePi@ p + 1], e}] - Boole[n == 1], {n, 65}] (* Michael De Vlieger, Mar 24 2017 *)
PROG
(PARI) a(n)=local(f); if(n<1, 0, f=factor(n); prod(k=1, matsize(f)[1], nextprime(1+f[k, 1])^f[k, 2]))
(PARI) a(n) = my(f = factor(n)); for (i=1, #f~, f[i, 1] = nextprime(f[i, 1]+1)); factorback(f); \\ Michel Marcus, May 17 2014
(Haskell)
a003961 1 = 1
a003961 n = product $ map (a000040 . (+ 1) . a049084) $ a027746_row n
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Apr 09 2012, Oct 09 2011
(MIT/GNU Scheme, with Aubrey Jaffer's SLIB Scheme library)
(require 'factor)
;; Antti Karttunen, May 20 2014
(Perl) use ntheory ":all"; sub a003961 { vecprod(map { next_prime($_) } factor(shift)); } # Dana Jacobsen, Mar 06 2016
(Python)
from sympy import factorint, prime, primepi, prod
def a(n):
f=factorint(n)
return 1 if n==1 else prod(prime(primepi(i) + 1)**f[i] for i in f)
[a(n) for n in range(1, 11)] # Indranil Ghosh, May 13 2017
CROSSREFS
See A045965 for another version.
Row 1 of table A242378 (which gives the "k-th powers" of this sequence), row 3 of A297845 and of A306697. See also arrays A066117, A246278, A255483, A308503, A329050.
Cf. A064989 (a left inverse), A064216, A000040, A002110, A000265, A027746, A046523, A048673 (= (a(n)+1)/2), A108228 (= (a(n)-1)/2), A191002 (= a(n)*n), A252748 (= a(n)-2n), A286385 (= a(n)-sigma(n)), A283980 (= a(n)*A006519(n)), A341529 (= a(n)*sigma(n)), A326042, A049084, A001221, A001222, A122111, A225546, A260443, A245606, A244319, A246269 (= A065338(a(n))), A322361 (= gcd(n, a(n))), A305293.
Cf. A246261 (a(n) is of the form 4k+1), A246263 (of the form 4k+3), A246271, A246272, A246259, A246281 (n such that a(n) < 2n), A246282 (n such that a(n) > 2n), A252742.
Cf. A300841, A305421, A322991, A250469, A269379 for analogous shift-operators in other factorization and quasi-factorization systems.
Cf. also following permutations and other sequences that can be defined with the help of this sequence: A005940, A163511, A122111, A260443, A206296, A265408, A265750, A275733, A275735, A297845, A091202 & A091203, A250245 & A250246, A302023 & A302024, A302025 & A302026.
A permutation of A005408.
Applying the same transformation again gives A357852.
KEYWORD
nonn,mult,nice
AUTHOR
STATUS
approved