On integers n for which (2n + 1) (2n)

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2020.02.007MaRDI QIDQ784272zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mits Kobayashi, Tim Trudgian

Publication date 3 August 2020

Published in Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10064

zbMATH Keywords

inequalitynatural densitiessmooth numberssum of divisors function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic functions; related numbers; inversion formulas (11A25) Distribution of integers with specified multiplicative constraints (11N25) Asymptotic results on arithmetic functions (11N37)

Abstract: We show that the natural density of positive integers $n$ for which $sigma(2n+1)geqsigma(2n)$ is between $0.053$ and $0.055$.

Review text

Let \(\sigma(n)\) denote the sum of divisors function. Let \(B\) be the set of natural numbers \(n\) such that \(\sigma(2n + 1)\ge\sigma(2n)\), and let \(B(x)\) be the number of \(n\) in B with \(n\le x\). Then \(\lim_{x\to\infty} B(x)/x\) exists, and it is called the natural density of \(B\), denoted as \(\mathbf{d}\,B\). The authors prove that \(\mathbf{d}\,B\) exists and \(0.0539171\leq\mathbf{d}\,B\leq 0.0549445\). This refines \textit{L. E. Mattics}' result [``Problems and solutions: solutions of advanced problems: 6555, Am. Math. Mon. 97, No. 4, 351--353 (1990)]. In the context of the same problem, A. Hildebrand (1990) remarks that \(\lim_{x\to\infty} B(x)/x\) exists (as is noted by the authors).

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