Erdős Problem 470 #
Reference: erdosproblems.com/470
Primitive weird numbers are weird numbers such that no proper divisor of $n$ are weird.
Equations
- Erdos470.PrimitiveWeird n = (n.Weird ∧ ∀ d ∈ n.properDivisors, ¬d.Weird)
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The abundancy index is the sum of the divisors of $n$ divided by $n$.
Equations
- Erdos470.AbundancyIndex n = ↑(∑ d ∈ n.divisors, d) / ↑n
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Are there infinitely many primitive weird numbers?
Benkoski and Erdős BeEr74 proved that the set of weird numbers has positive density.
theorem
Erdos470.erdos_470.variants.prime_gap_imp_inf_prim_weird :
∀ᶠ (n : ℕ) in Filter.atTop, ↑(primeGap n) < √↑(Nat.nth Nat.Prime n) / 10 → Set.Infinite PrimitiveWeird
Melfi Me15 has proved that there are infinitely many primitive weird numbers, conditional on the fact that $p_{n+1} - p_n < \frac{1}{10} p_n^{1/2}$ for all large $n$, which in turn would follow from well-known conjectures concerning prime gaps.
If there are no odd weird numbers then every weird number has abundancy index < 4.