A229953 Numbers k for which k = sigma(sigma(x)) = sigma(sigma(y)) for some x and y such that k = x + y.

4, 8, 32, 60, 128, 8192, 43200, 69360, 120960, 131072, 524288, 4146912, 6549984, 12927600, 13335840, 16329600, 34715520, 51603840, 57879360, 59633280, 107775360, 160797000, 169155840, 252067200, 371226240, 391789440, 436230144, 439883136, 489888000, 657296640

Offset

1,1

Comments

A072868 is a subsequence of this sequence. Any term x of A072868 can be expressed as x = 2*sigma(sigma(x/2)).

Note the analogy with amicable pair sums (A180164) which satisfy a similar condition: k = sigma(x) = sigma(y) where k = x + y. - Michel Marcus, Oct 07 2013

When terms do not belong to A072868, then they belong to A159886, and the (x,y) couples are (23,37), (14999,28201), (34673,34687), (55373,65587), (2056961,2089951), (2458187,4091797), (4586987,8340613), (5174363,8161477), (6204767,10124833), (15788453,18927067), (25748273,25855567), (20699927,37179433), (22239647,37393633), ... - Michel Marcus, Oct 08 2013

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..30.

Graeme L. Cohen and Herman J. J. te Riele, Iterating the sum-of-divisors function, Experiment. Math. (1996) vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 91-100 (see merge at n=60 in tree of section 4 page 97).

Example

4 = 2 + 2 = 2*sigma(sigma(2)).
8 = 4 + 4 = 2*sigma(sigma(4)).
32 = 16 + 16 = 2*sigma(sigma(16)).
60 = 23 + 37 = sigma(sigma(23)) = sigma(sigma(37)).
128 = 64 + 64 = 2*sigma(sigma(64)).
8192 = 4096 + 4096 = 2*sigma(sigma(4096)).

Maple

with(numtheory); P:=proc(q) local j, n;
for n from 1 to q do for j from 1 to trunc(n/2) do
if sigma(sigma(j))=sigma(sigma(n-j)) and sigma(sigma(j))=n then print(n);
fi; od; od; end: P(10^6);

Crossrefs

Cf. A000203, A072868.

Sequence in context: A378083 A050442 A377766 * A331408 A291938 A358046

Adjacent sequences: A229950 A229951 A229952 * A229954 A229955 A229956

Keyword

nonn

Author

Paolo P. Lava, Oct 04 2013

Extensions

a(7)-a(20) from Giovanni Resta, Oct 06 2013

a(21)-a(30) from Donovan Johnson, Oct 08 2013

Status

approved