Conjecture on sums of practical and polygonal numbers
Conjecture on sums of practical and polygonal numbers
For a natural number , an -gonal number is a number in the corresponding polygonal-number sequence, and a practical number is a natural number whose positive integers up to it can be represented as sums of distinct divisors. A natural number is sufficiently large if all natural numbers beyond some threshold have the stated property.
Conjecture on practical and polygonal sums. If , , and , then all sufficiently large natural numbers can be written as a sum of a practical number and an -gonal number.
The claim is based on computations of representations by a practical number and an -gonal number. The source explicitly notes that it does not hold for other values of , so the conjecture as stated is refuted.
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Primary source
Sai Teja Somu and Duc Van Khanh Tran, “On Sums of Practical Numbers and Polygonal Numbers”, arXiv:2403.13533 (2024).
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