Finiteness conjecture for odd deficient perfect numbers with a fixed number of prime factors

For a positive integer k3k\geq 3, consider odd deficient perfect numbers whose prime factorization has exactly kk distinct prime factors. Finiteness conjecture. For any positive integer k3k\geq 3, there are only finitely many odd deficient perfect numbers with exactly kk distinct prime factors. This is a broader finiteness question about the distribution of odd deficient perfect numbers by the number of distinct prime factors, and it remains open in the source.

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Parama Dutta and Manjil P. Saikia, “On Deficient Perfect Numbers with Four Distinct Prime Factors”, arXiv:1906.09947 (2019).

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