scholarly journals Bi-unitary multiperfect numbers, IV(a)

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 2-32
Author(s):  
Pentti Haukkanen ◽  
◽  
Varanasi Sitaramaiah

A divisor d of a positive integer n is called a unitary divisor if \gcd(d, n/d)=1; and d is called a bi-unitary divisor of n if the greatest common unitary divisor of d and n/d is unity. The concept of a bi-unitary divisor is due to D. Surynarayana (1972). Let \sigma^{**}(n) denote the sum of the bi-unitary divisors of n. A positive integer n is called a bi-unitary multiperfect number if \sigma^{**}(n)=kn for some k \geq 3. For k=3 we obtain the bi-unitary triperfect numbers. Peter Hagis (1987) proved that there are no odd bi-unitary multiperfect numbers. The present paper is Part IV(a) in a series of papers on even bi-unitary multiperfect numbers. In parts I, II and III we found all bi-unitary triperfect numbers of the form n=2^{a}u, where 1\leq a \leq 6 and u is odd. There exist exactly ten such numbers. In this part we solve partly the case a=7. We prove that if n is a bi-unitary triperfect number of the form n=2^{7}.5^{b}.17^{c}.v, where (v, 2.5.17)=1, then b\geq 2. We then confine ourselves to the case b=2. We prove that in this case we have c=1 and further show that n=2^{7}.3^{2}.5^{2}.7.13.17=44553600 is the only bi-unitary triperfect number of this form.

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