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Restricted divisor summatory function

I have a problem that boils down to prove that the succession $\{a_n\}$ tends to infinity, where $$a_n:=1+\sum_{0\leq j<n}D_{2j+1}(n-j)$$ and $D_{m}(n)$ is the number of divisors $d>1$ of $n$ ...
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Does the equation $\sigma(\sigma(x^2))=2x\sigma(x)$ have any odd solutions?

This question was posted in MSE in early August 2020. It did garner several upvotes, but did not receive any responses. I have therefore cross-posted it here, hoping that it gets answered. Let $\...
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Near Pochhammer symbols: the equation $(n)_m-(k)_l=2$ for integers greater than or equal to two

In this post I consider the following equation involving Pochhammer symbols, $$(n)_m-(k)_l=2\tag{1}$$ for positive integers $n\geq 2$ and $k\geq 2$, and positive integers $m\geq 2$ and $l\geq 2$. ...
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Catalan numbers, Pochhammer symbols, Stirling numbers of the second kind, and sums of aliquot parts

For integers $N\geq 1$ we define $$s(N)=\sigma(N)-N$$ the aliquot sum function, where $\sigma(N)=\sum_{1\leq d|N}d$ is the sum of divisors function. Here $(x)_n$ is the Pochhammer symbol and ${a\...
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On the equation involving Stirling numbers of the second kind ${n\brace a}{m\brace b}={k\brace c}$, and its solutions satisfying certain requirements

In this post we denote the Stirling numbers of the second kind as ${r\brace s}$ and we consider the proposal to ask if the equation of the title has infinitely many solutions $${n\brace a}{m\brace b}={...
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A diophantine equation involving partial sums of exponentials similar than the equation in Fermat's Last Theorem

I'm curious about the following diophantine equation from my invention: I don't know if this is in the literature, I wrote it using creativity in an attempt to write a variant of the equation in ...
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On variants of the abc conjecture in terms of Lehmer means

In this post we denote the Lehmer mean of a tuple $\text{x}$ of positive real numbers as $$L_p(\text{x})={\sum_{k=1}^nx_k^p\over\sum_{k=1}^nx_k^{p-1}},$$ see the reference Wikipedia Lehmer mean. The ...
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On the number of solutions of the equation involving Pochhammer symbols $(n)_a\cdot(n)_b=(n)_c$, for integers greater than or equal to $2$

As paticular case of the equation involving Pochhammer symbols $$(n)_a\cdot(m)_b=(k)_c,$$ where the variables are positive integers, I've consider the case $n=m=k$ of previous equation, that is $$(n)...
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