Distinctness conjecture for the values of the divisor-sum ratio

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Let σ(x)\sigma(x) denote the sum-of-divisors function for xNx\in\mathbb{N}. Distinctness conjecture. All values of

σ(x)x2\frac{\sigma(x)}{x^2}

for xNx\in\mathbb{N} are pairwise distinct. No equal values are known for different natural numbers, although distinctness is known for different coprime numbers. The conjecture concerns whether the function xσ(x)/x2x\mapsto \sigma(x)/x^2 is injective on N\mathbb{N}.

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Primary source

Mario Ziller, “Orders and partitions of integers induced by arithmetic functions”, arXiv:2310.15628 (2026).

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