Quasi-Amicable Numbers are Rare
Paul Pollack
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Mathematics
1409 West Green Street
Urbana, IL 61801
USA
Abstract:
Define a quasi-amicable pair as a pair of
distinct natural numbers each of which is the sum of the nontrivial
divisors of the other, e.g., {48, 75}. Here nontrivial
excludes both 1 and the number itself. Quasi-amicable pairs have been
studied (primarily empirically) by Garcia, Beck and Najar, Lal and
Forbes, and Hagis and Lord. We prove that the set of n belonging to a
quasi-amicable pair has asymptotic density zero.
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(Concerned with sequences
A000396
A005276
A007992
A015630
A063990
A126160.)
Received November 26 2010.
revised version received April 16 2011.
Published in Journal of Integer Sequences, April 21 2011.
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