The infinitude of composite almost-prime numbers

A positive integer nn is almost-prime if it is square-free and satisfies nTn(x)n\mid T_n(x) for every integer xx, where

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

and 1=d1<d2<<dk=n1=d_1<d_2<\dots<d_k=n are all divisors of nn. Infinitude conjecture. There are infinitely many composite almost-prime numbers. Every almost-prime is either prime or a Carmichael number, so this conjecture asks for an infinite special subclass of the composite Carmichael numbers. Its resolution is not specified in the source.

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Primary source

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

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