On power values of sum of divisors function in arithmetic progressions

DOI10.1007/S13226-023-00367-5MaRDI QIDQ6129779zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sai Teja Somu, Vidyanshu Mishra

Publication date 17 April 2024

Published in Indian Journal of Pure \& Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.06939

zbMATH Keywords

arithmetic progressionssum of divisorspower values

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic functions; related numbers; inversion formulas (11A25) Arithmetic progressions (11B25)

Abstract: Let $ageq1,bgeq0$ and $kgeq2$ be any given integers. It has been proven that there exist infinitely many natural numbers $m$ such that sum of divisors of $m$ is a perfect $k$th power. We try to generalize this result when the values of $m$ belong to any given infinite arithmetic progression $an+b$. We prove if $a$ is relatively prime to $b$ and order of $b$ modulo $a$ is relatively prime to $k$ then there exist infinitely many natural numbers $n$ such that sum of divisors of $an+b$ is a perfect $k$th power. We also prove that, in general, either sum of divisors of $an+b$ is not a perfect $k$th power for any natural number $n$ or sum of divisors of $an+b$ is a perfect $k$th power for infinitely many natural numbers $n$.

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