Growth conjecture for primary Carmichael numbers

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Let C′\mathcal{C}' be the set of squarefree numbers mm such that sp(m)=ps_p(m)=p for every prime factor pp of mm, and let C′(x)C'(x) denote the number of elements of C′\mathcal{C}' less than xx.

Growth conjecture for primary Carmichael numbers. For sufficiently small ε>0\varepsilon>0,

C′(x)=O(x1/3−ε)as x→∞.C'(x)=O\left(x^{1/3-\varepsilon}\right)\quad\text{as }x\to\infty.

The conjecture is motivated by numerical evidence and by the expected rarity of Carmichael numbers with more than three prime factors. The related conjectural estimate of Granville and Pomerance for Carmichael numbers with exactly three prime factors is O(x1/3/log⁡3x)O(x^{1/3}/\log^3 x), while the best bound mentioned in the source is weaker.

References

Primary source

Bernd C. Kellner and Jonathan Sondow, “On Carmichael and polygonal numbers, Bernoulli polynomials, and sums of base-p digits”, arXiv:1902.10672 (2021).

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