The biharmonic mean

zbMATH Open1389.11129arXiv1601.03081MaRDI QIDQ5367254FDOQ5367254

Authors: Marco Abrate, Stefano Barbero, Umberto Cerutti, Nadir Murru 

Publication date: 12 October 2017

Abstract: We briefly describe some well-known means and their properties, focusing on the relationship with integer sequences. In particular, the harmonic numbers, deriving from the harmonic mean, motivate the definition of a new kind of mean that we call the biharmonic mean. The biharmonic mean allows to introduce the biharmonic numbers, providing a new characterization for primes. Moreover, we highlight some interesting divisibility properties and we characterize the semi--prime biharmonic numbers showing their relationship with linear recurrent sequences that solve certain Diophantine equations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.03081

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zbMATH Keywords

arithmetic meanharmonic meangeometric meanharmonic numbersdivisibilityinteger sequences

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Means (26E60) Generalized primes and integers (11N80)

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