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”).

A358082
a(1) = 1, a(2) = 2; for n > 2, a(n) is the smallest positive number not occurring earlier that shares a factor with Sum_{k=1..n-1} sigma(a(k)).
3
1, 2, 4, 11, 23, 47, 5, 101, 7, 211, 3, 14, 22, 487, 6, 9, 8, 10, 1033, 12, 15, 13, 18, 16, 2203, 21, 46, 26, 29, 4583, 89, 9257, 20, 28, 35, 18661, 24, 17, 27, 37441, 30, 19, 25, 32, 33, 36, 34, 38, 39, 40, 42, 44, 45, 48, 37, 31, 50, 49, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60, 62, 63, 51, 57, 64, 55, 66, 69, 72
OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
The sequence shows large jumps in value due to the sum occasionally forming a large prime, e.g., a(279) = 2650277753. The sequence is conjectured to be a permutation of the positive integers.
EXAMPLE
a(7) = 5 as Sum_{k=1..6} sigma(a(k)) = Sum_{k=1..6} A000203(a(k)) = 1 + 3 + 7 + 12 + 24 + 48 = 95, and 5 is the smallest unused number that shares a factor with 95.
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Scott R. Shannon, Nov 02 2022
STATUS
approved