Hybrid semigroup-friable shifted-prime conjecture

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Let S3(≤3)\mathcal{S}_3^{(\leq 3)} be the bounded-exponent semigroup used in the paper, and let ord⁡r(2)\operatorname{ord}_r(2) denote the multiplicative order of 22 modulo a prime rr. Hybrid semigroup-friable shifted-prime conjecture. For all sufficiently large k∈S3(≤3)k\in\mathcal{S}_3^{(\leq 3)}, no prime rr satisfies both

ord⁡r(2)=4kandr−14k∈S3(≤3).\operatorname{ord}_r(2)=4k \qquad\text{and}\qquad \frac{r-1}{4k}\in\mathcal{S}_3^{(\leq 3)}.

This is proposed as an analytic target that would close the finiteness problem for HevenH_{\mathrm{even}} by ruling out primitive divisors passing both parts of the 3-Higgs test. It remains open.

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Tom Maciejewski, “Bounded-box reductions in the Subbarao-Warren problem for unitary perfect numbers”, arXiv:2605.20475 (2026).

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