A292353 Numbers n with a record number of Lucas-Carmichael numbers that can be generated from them using an adjusted version of Erdős's method.

24, 72, 216, 240, 360, 720, 1440, 2160, 2520, 4320, 5040, 7560, 10080, 15120, 20160

Offset

1,1

Comments

Erdős showed in 1956 how to construct Carmichael numbers from a given number n (see A287840). With appropriate sign changes the method can be used to generate Lucas-Carmichael numbers. Given a number n, let P be the set of primes p such that (p+1)|n but p is not a factor of n. Let c be a product of a subset of P with at least 3 elements. If c == -1 (mod n) then c is a Lucas-Carmichael number.

The corresponding number of generated Lucas-Carmichael numbers are 1, 3, 5, 9, 21, 169, 681, 900, 1842, 7250, 29132, 77482, 932187, 4970111, 7456418.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..15.

Example

The set of primes for n = 24 is P={2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 23}. One subset, {5, 7, 11, 23} have c == -1 (mod n): c = 5*7*11*23 = 8855. 24 is the least number that generates Lucas-Carmichael numbers thus a(1)=24.

Mathematica

a = {}; cmax = 0; Do[p = Select[Divisors[n] - 1, PrimeQ]; pr = Times @@ p; pr = pr/GCD[n, pr]; ps = Divisors[pr]; c = 0; Do[p1 = FactorInteger[ps[[j]]][[;; , 1]]; If[Length[p1] < 3, Continue[]]; c1 = Times @@ p1; If[Mod[c1, n] == 1, c++], {j, 1, Length[ps]}]; If[c > cmax, cmax = c; AppendTo[a, n]], {n, 1, 1000}]; a

Crossrefs

Cf. A006972, A287861, A292352.

Sequence in context: A064200 A305065 A192833 * A189540 A329077 A339883

Adjacent sequences: A292350 A292351 A292352 * A292354 A292355 A292356

Keyword

nonn,more

Author

Amiram Eldar, Sep 14 2017

Status

approved