Primary Pseudoperfect Numbers, Arithmetic Progressions, and the Erdős-Moser Equation

DOI10.4169/amer.math.monthly.124.3.232zbMath1391.11067arXiv1812.06566OpenAlexW3105073341WikidataQ58123296 ScholiaQ58123296MaRDI QIDQ4575238

Kieren MacMillan, Jonathan Sondow

Publication date: 13 July 2018

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.06566

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rational numbers as sums of fractions (11D68) Primes (11A41)

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