Conjecture on sums of a practical number and two polygonal numbers
Conjecture on sums of a practical number and two polygonal numbers
For , 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 sum of two -gonal numbers allows the two summands to be chosen independently.
Conjecture on two polygonal summands. For , all natural numbers can be written as a sum of a practical number and two -gonal numbers.
The conjecture is motivated by computational verification for all natural numbers below and is described in the source as a stronger version of a cited theorem for these values of . The supplied status evidence says that the conjecture does not hold for other values of ; no counterexample to the stated finite set of values is supplied.
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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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