The aliquot constant
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Publication:2890801
DOI10.1093/QMATH/HAQ050zbMATH Open1259.11088arXiv0912.3660OpenAlexW1976197351MaRDI QIDQ2890801FDOQ2890801
Authors: Wieb Bosma, Ben Kane 
Publication date: 12 June 2012
Published in: The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: The average value of log s(n)/n taken over the first N even integers is shown to converge to a constant lambda when N tends to infinity; moreover, the value of this constant is approximated and proven to be less than 0. Here s(n) sums the divisors of n less than n. Thus the geometric mean of s(n)/n, the growth factor of the function s, in the long run tends to be less than 1. This could be interpreted as probabilistic evidence that aliquot sequences tend to remain bounded.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.3660
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