The 2-Mersenne divisor conjecture

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Let SS be a 2-Mersenne prime and let h2h\geq 2. The polynomial sum-of-divisors function is denoted by σ\sigma. 2-Mersenne divisor conjecture. The integer σ(S2h)\sigma(S^{2h}) is divisible by a non-Mersenne prime or by a non-2-Mersenne prime. The source presents this as one of two proposed conjectures concerning possible divisors of perfect polynomials; it gives motivation and conditional implications, but no resolution.

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L. H. Gallardo and O. Rahavandrainy, “On odd prime divisors of binary perfect polynomials”, arXiv:2007.16016 (2020).

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