The existence of composite weakly almost-prime and almost-prime numbers

For each positive integer nn, let

Tn(x)=xd1+xd2++xdkkx,T_n(x)=x^{d_1}+x^{d_2}+\dots+x^{d_k}-kx,

where 1=d1<d2<<dk=n1=d_1<d_2<\dots<d_k=n are all divisors of nn. A positive integer nn is weakly almost-prime if nTn(x)n\mid T_n(x) for every integer xx; if it is also square-free, it is almost-prime. Existence conjecture. There are no composite weakly almost-prime numbers greater than four and no composite almost-prime numbers. The source phrases this as a question, so its resolution is not specified here.

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Tigran Hakobyan, “T-Fermat integers”, arXiv:2603.00679 (2026).

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