login

Year-end appeal: Please make a donation to the OEIS Foundation to support ongoing development and maintenance of the OEIS. We are now in our 61st year, we have over 378,000 sequences, and we’ve reached 11,000 citations (which often say “discovered thanks to the OEIS”).

Numbers with at least five distinct prime factors that satisfy Euler's criterion (A228058) for odd perfect numbers.
5

%I #18 Feb 16 2020 20:15:32

%S 17342325,22678425,31674825,38686725,41420925,45090045,49358925,

%T 51740325,54033525,54695025,67660425,68939325,70703325,75818925,

%U 76392225,77106645,78217425,81375525,92400525,96316605,97383825,98750925,99147825,102284325,107694405,113656725,115420725,117890325,118728225,120536325,127766925

%N Numbers with at least five distinct prime factors that satisfy Euler's criterion (A228058) for odd perfect numbers.

%C P. P. Nielsen's 2006 paper shows that any odd perfect number must have at least nine distinct prime factors, thus if such numbers exist at all, they must occur in this sequence.

%C I conjecture that it is eventually possible to find an easy proof that this sequence has no common terms with A325981, and/or several other sequences (A326064, A326074, A326141, A326148, etc.) listed under index entry "sequences where odd perfect numbers must occur", thus settling the question about the existence of such numbers.

%H Antti Karttunen, <a href="/A326137/b326137.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1032; all terms < 2^31</a>

%H Charles Greathouse and Eric W. Weisstein, <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/OddPerfectNumber.html">MathWorld: Odd perfect number</a>

%H Oliver Knill, <a href="http://www.math.harvard.edu/~knill/seminars/perfect/handout.pdf">The oldest open problem in mathematics</a>, Handout for NEU Math Circle, December 2, 2007

%H P. P. Nielsen, <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0602485">Odd Perfect Numbers Have At Least Nine Distinct Prime Factors</a>, arXiv:math/0602485 [math.NT], 2006.

%H Wikipedia, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_number#Odd_perfect_numbers">Perfect number: Odd perfect numbers</a>

%H <a href="/index/O#opnseqs">Index entries for sequences where any odd perfect numbers must occur</a>

%o (PARI)

%o isA228058(n) = if(!(n%2)||(omega(n)<2),0,my(f=factor(n),y=0); for(i=1,#f~,if(1==(f[i,2]%4), if((1==y)||(1!=(f[i,1]%4)),return(0),y=1), if(f[i,2]%2, return(0)))); (y));

%o isA326137(n) = ((omega(n)>=5)&&isA228058(n));

%Y Subsequence of A228058.

%Y Cf. A001221, A325981, A326064, A326074, A326141, A326148.

%K nonn

%O 1,1

%A _Antti Karttunen_, Jun 12 2019