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On the largest prime divisor of an odd harmonic number

Authors :
Yasuo Ohno
Takeshi Goto
Yusuke Chishiki
Source :
Mathematics of Computation. 76:1577-1588
Publication Year :
2007
Publisher :
American Mathematical Society (AMS), 2007.

Abstract

A positive integer is called a (Ore's) harmonic number if its positive divisors have integral harmonic mean. Ore conjectured that every harmonic number greater than 1 is even. If Ore's conjecture is true, there exist no odd perfect numbers. In this paper, we prove that every odd harmonic number greater than 1 must be divisible by a prime greater than 10 5 .

Details

ISSN :
00255718
Volume :
76
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Mathematics of Computation
Accession number :
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