extraordinary number
Define the function for integers by
where is the sum of the positive divisors of . A positive integer is said to be an extraordinary number if it is composite and
for any prime factor of and any multiple of .
It has been proved in [1] that the Riemann Hypothesis is true iff 4 is the only extraordinary number. The proof is based on Gronwall’s theorem and Robin’s theorem.
References
- 1 Geoffrey Caveney, Jean-Louis Nicolas, Jonathan Sondow: Robin’s theorem, primes, and a new elementary reformulation of the Riemann Hypothesis. Integers 11 (2011) article A33; available directly at http://arxiv.org/pdf/1110.5078.pdfarXiv.