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A065395 Commutator of sigma and phi functions. 13

%I #29 Feb 27 2024 03:57:23

%S 0,-1,1,-3,5,-1,8,-1,0,1,14,-5,22,4,7,-15,25,-12,31,3,12,6,28,-1,12,

%T 16,23,4,48,-9,56,-5,26,13,44,-44,73,23,36,7,78,-4,76,18,36,12,56,-29,

%U 60,-18,39,18,80,7,66,28,59,32,74,-17,138,40,43,-63,100,-6

%N Commutator of sigma and phi functions.

%C Golomb (1993) proved that the terms are both positive and negative infinitely often. - _Amiram Eldar_, Feb 27 2024

%D Solomon W. Golomb, Equality among number-theoretic functions, Abstracts Amer. Math. Soc., Vol. 14 (1993), pp. 415-416.

%H Harry J. Smith, <a href="/A065395/b065395.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000</a>

%H Jean-Marie De Koninck and Florian Luca, <a href="https://eudml.org/doc/284003">On the composition of the Euler function and the sum of divisors function</a>, Colloquium Mathematicum, Vol. 108, No. 1 (2007), pp. 31-51.

%H Solomon W. Golomb, <a href="/A006872/a006872_1.pdf">Equality among number-theoretic functions</a>, Unpublished manuscript. (Annotated scanned copy)

%F a(n) = sigma(phi(n)) - phi(sigma(n)) = A000203(A000010(n)) - A000010(A000203(n)).

%F a(n) = A062402(n) - A062401(n). - _Amiram Eldar_, Feb 27 2024

%e n = 13: sigma(13) = 14, phi(14) = 6, phi(13) = 12, sigma(12) = 28, a(13) = 28-6 = 22.

%p with(numtheory); A065395:=n->sigma(phi(n))-phi(sigma(n)); seq(A065395(n), n=1..100); # _Wesley Ivan Hurt_, Dec 26 2013

%t Table[DivisorSigma[1, EulerPhi[n]] - EulerPhi[DivisorSigma[1, n]], {n, 100}] (* _T. D. Noe_, Nov 04 2013 *)

%o (PARI) { for (n=1, 1000, a=sigma(eulerphi(n)) - eulerphi(sigma(n)); write("b065395.txt", n, " ", a) ) } \\ _Harry J. Smith_, Oct 18 2009

%o (Magma) [DivisorSigma(1, EulerPhi(n))-EulerPhi(DivisorSigma(1, n)): n in [1..70]]; // _Bruno Berselli_, Oct 20 2015

%Y Cf. A000010, A000203, A033632 (positions of 0's), A062401, A062402.

%K sign,easy

%O 1,4

%A _Labos Elemer_, Nov 05 2001

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