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Highly powerful number

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In elementary number theory, a highly powerful number is a positive integer that satisfies a property introduced by the Indo-Canadian mathematician Mathukumalli V. Subbarao.[1] The set of highly powerful numbers is a proper subset of the set of powerful numbers.

Define prodex(1) = 1. Let be a positive integer, such that , where are distinct primes in increasing order and is a positive integer for . Define . (sequence A005361 in the OEIS) The positive integer is defined to be a highly powerful number if and only if, for every positive integer implies that [2]

The first 25 highly powerful numbers are: 1, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 144, 216, 288, 432, 864, 1296, 1728, 2592, 3456, 5184, 7776, 10368, 15552, 20736, 31104, 41472, 62208, 86400. (sequence A005934 in the OEIS)

References

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  1. ^ Hardy, G. E.; Subbarao, M. V. (1983). "Highly powerful numbers". Congr. Numer. 37. pp. 277–307.
  2. ^ Lacampagne, C. B.; Selfridge, J. L. (June 1984). "Large highly powerful numbers are cubeful". Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 91 (2): 173–181. doi:10.1090/s0002-9939-1984-0740165-6.