On Some Results on Practical Numbers

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Authors Sai Teja Somu, Ting Hon Stanford Li, Andrzej Kukla

Publication date 7 December 2022

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special sequences and polynomials (11B83) Distribution of integers with specified multiplicative constraints (11N25)

Abstract: A positive integer $n$ is said to be a practical number if every integer in $[1,n]$ can be represented as the sum of distinct divisors of $n$. In this article, we consider practical numbers of a given polynomial form. We give a necessary and sufficient condition on coefficients $a$ and $b$ for there to be infinitely many practical numbers of the form $an+b$. We also give a necessary and sufficient for a quadratic polynomial to contain infinitely many practical numbers, using which we solve first part of a conjecture mentioned in [9]. In the final section, we prove that every number of $8k+1$ form can be expressed as a sum of a practical number and a square, and for every $jin0,ldots,7setminus1$ there are infinitely many natural numbers of $8k+j$ form which cannot be written as sum of a square and a practical number.

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