On Quotients of Values of Euler's Function on Factorials

DOI10.1017/S0004972721000939zbMATH Open1507.11003arXiv2110.09875MaRDI QIDQ6380753FDOQ6380753

Authors: Ayan Nath, Abhishek Jha 

Publication date: 19 October 2021

Abstract: Recently, there has been some interest in values of arithmetical functions on members of special sequences, such as Euler's totient function $phi$ on factorials, linear recurrences, etc. In this article, we investigate, for given positive integers $a$ and $b$, the least positive integer $c=c(a,b)$ such that the quotient $phi(c!)/phi(a!)phi(b!)$ is an integer. We derive results on the limit of the ratio $c(a,b)/(a+b)$ as $a$ and $b$ tend to infinity. Furthermore, we show that $c(a,b)>a+b$ for all pairs of positive integers $(a,b)$ with an exception of a set of density zero.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Congruences; primitive roots; residue systems (11A07) Arithmetic functions; related numbers; inversion formulas (11A25) Asymptotic results on arithmetic functions (11N37) Binomial coefficients; factorials; (q)-identities (11B65)

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