Bi-unitary multiperfect numbers, II

Pentti Haukkanen and Varanasi Sitaramaiah
Notes on Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics
Print ISSN 1310–5132, Online ISSN 2367–8275
Volume 26, 2020, Number 2, Pages 1—26
DOI: 10.7546/nntdm.2020.26.2.1-26
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Pentti Haukkanen
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences
FI-33014 Tampere University, Finland

Varanasi Sitaramaiah
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Andhra Pradesh, 523316 India

Abstract

A divisor d of a positive integer n is called a unitary divisor if \gcd(d, n/d)=1; and d is called a bi-unitary divisor of n if the greatest common unitary divisor of d and n/d is unity. The concept of a bi-unitary divisor is due to D. Surynarayana (1972). Let \sigma^{**}(n) denote the sum of the bi-unitary divisors of n. A positive integer n is called a bi-unitary multiperfect number if \sigma^{**}(n)=kn for some k\geq 3. For k=3 we obtain the bi-unitary triperfect numbers.

Peter Hagis (1987) proved that there are no odd bi-unitary multiperfect numbers. The present paper is Part II in a series of papers on even bi-unitary multiperfect numbers. In the first part we found all bi-unitary triperfect numbers of the form n=2^{a}u, where 1\leq a \leq 3 and u is odd; the only one being n=120. In this second part we find all bi-unitary triperfect numbers in the cases a=4 and a=5. For a=4 the only one is n=2160, and for a=5 they are n=672, n=10080, n=528800 and n=22932000.

Keywords

  • Perfect numbers
  • Triperfect numbers
  • Multiperfect numbers
  • Bi-unitary analogues

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

  • 11A25

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Haukkanen, P., & Sitaramaiah, V. (2020). Bi-unitary multiperfect numbers, II. Notes on Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics, 26 (2), 1-26, doi: 10.7546/nntdm.2020.26.2.1-26.

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