Congruence progression conjecture for primary pseudoperfect numbers

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Let KrK_r denote a primary pseudoperfect number with rr prime factors. The claim concerns those KrK_r divisible by 66. Primary pseudoperfect congruence conjecture. For all r≥2r\ge2, if 6∣Kr6\mid K_r, then

Kr≡6+62(r−2)(mod62⋅8).K_r\equiv 6+6^2(r-2)\pmod{6^2\cdot 8}.

Equivalently, if Kr>2K_r>2, then KrK_r is a multiple of 66 and

Kr−662≡r−2(mod8).\frac{K_r-6}{6^2}\equiv r-2\pmod{8}.

The statement is proposed as a strengthening of a previously established congruence for all primary pseudoperfect numbers divisible by 66, including any with more than eight prime factors. No resolution is supplied in the source.

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Jonathan Sondow and Kieren MacMillan, “Primary Pseudoperfect Numbers, Arithmetic Progressions, and the Erdős-Moser Equation”, arXiv:1812.06566 (2018).

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