Erdős Problem #692 — Unimodality of Divisor Densities

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For natural numbers a,ba,b, let

E(a,b)={x∈N:∣{d∈N:a<d<b and d∣x}∣=1}.E(a,b)=\{x\in\mathbb N:|\{d\in\mathbb N:a<d<b\text{ and }d\mid x\}|=1\}.

Let δ1(a,b)\delta_1(a,b) be the density of E(a,b)E(a,b). Is it true that, for every function δ:N→N→R\delta:\mathbb N\to\mathbb N\to\mathbb R such that δ(a,b)\delta(a,b) is the density of E(a,b)E(a,b) for every a,b∈Na,b\in\mathbb N, and for every n∈Nn\in\mathbb N, the function m↦δ(n,m)m\mapsto\delta(n,m) is unimodular on the set of natural numbers m≥n+1m\geq n+1—that is, it increases up to some point and decreases thereafter? The assertion is false.

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