A generalization of the practical numbers

DOI10.1142/S1793042118500902MaRDI QIDQ4643792zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Nicholas Schwab, Lola Thompson

Publication date 29 May 2018

Published in International Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.08504

zbMATH Keywords

multiplicative arithmetic functionspractical numberssum-over-divisor functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Distribution of integers with specified multiplicative constraints (11N25) Asymptotic results on arithmetic functions (11N37)

Abstract: A positive integer $n$ is practical if every $mleqn$ can be written as a sum of distinct divisors of $n$. One can generalize the concept of practical numbers by applying an arithmetic function $f$ to each of the divisors of $n$ and asking whether all integers in a given interval can be expressed as sums of $f(d)$'s, where the $d$'s are distinct divisors of $n$. We will refer to such $n$ as `$f$-practical.' In this paper, we introduce the $f$-practical numbers for the first time. We give criteria for when all $f$-practical numbers can be constructed via a simple necessary-and-sufficient condition, demonstrate that it is possible to construct $f$-practical sets with any asymptotic density, and prove a series of results related to the distribution of $f$-practical numbers for many well-known arithmetic functions $f$.

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