Abstract factorials

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Authors Angelo Bernado Mingarelli

Publication date 5 March 2015

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.4299, http://nntdm.net/papers/nntdm-19/NNTDM-19-4-43-76.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

cumulative productdivisor functionfactorial sequencefactorial setsFibonacci numbersHardy-Littlewood conjecturehighly composite numbersirrationalprime numbersvon Mangoldt function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Binomial coefficients; factorials; (q)-identities (11B65) Other combinatorial number theory (11B75) Calculation of integer sequences (11Y55)

Abstract: A commutative semigroup of abstract factorials is defined in the context of the ring of integers. We study such factorials for their own sake, whether they are or are not connected to sets of integers. Given a subset X of the positive integers we construct a "factorial set" with which one may define a multitude of abstract factorials on X. We study the possible equality of consecutive factorials, a dichotomy involving the limit superior of the ratios of consecutive factorials and we provide many examples outlining the applications of the ensuing theory; examples dealing with prime numbers, Fibonacci numbers, and highly composite numbers among other sets of integers. One of our results states that given any abstract factorial the series of reciprocals of its factorials always converges to an irrational number. Thus, for example, for any positive integer k the series of the reciprocals of the k-th powers of the cumulative product of the divisors of the numbers from 1 to n is irrational.

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