Let n be a natural number and 1 = d 1 < d 2 < . . . < d k = n its divisors, with k ≥ 3 . Find the sum of all n such that n = d 2 2 + d 3 3 .
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Let n = p 1 a 1 p 2 a 2 p 3 a 3 . . . p k a k for a positive integer k and a k ∈ N ∀ k ∈ N .
It is obvious that d 2 = p 1 .
While d 3 can have two forms which is : d 3 = p 2 if and only if p 1 2 > p 2 . That is if p 1 2 ∣ n . Otherwise d 3 = p 1 2 .
(i) d 3 = p 2
We have n = p 1 2 + p 2 3 . Let p 1 = 2 , 2 ∣ n .
Therefore n = p 2 3 + 4 ≡ − 1 , 1 ( m o d 4 ) as p 2 ≥ 3 . Thus 2 ∤ n . Contradiction.
Now let p 1 ≥ 3 , thus 2 ∤ n .
We have, n = p 2 3 + 1 ≡ 0 , 2 ( m o d 4 ) . Thus 2 ∣ n . Contradiction.
(ii) d 3 = p 1 2
Therefore, n = p 1 2 + p 1 6
Let p 1 ≥ 3 . Thus 2 ∤ n . But n = p 1 2 + p 1 6 ≡ 0 ( m o d 2 ) . Contradiction.
Let p 1 = 2 ,
We have n = 4 + 6 4 = 6 8 with 2 2 < 1 7 . Therefore n = 6 8 satisfies the above equality.
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Let n be such an integer. Let d = ( d 2 , d 3 ) . Note that d ≤ d 2 and d ∣ n , so d = 1 or d = d 2 . Moreover, d 1 ∣ ( n − d 2 2 ) = d 3 3 . Since d 2 , d 3 > 1 , we conclude d 2 , d 3 are not coprime, so d = d 2 . Thus, d 3 = k d 2 for some integer k .
Then k ∣ n and k ≤ d 3 , so k = 1 or k = d 2 . However, d 2 = d 3 , so k = 1 . Therefore, d 3 = d 2 2 .
Note that d 2 is the smallest prime factor of n . If d 2 is odd, then n = d 2 2 + d 2 6 is even, so 2 ∣ n , yielding a contradiction. Therefore, d 2 is even, so d 2 = 2 .
Thus, n = 2 2 + 2 6 = 6 8 . Moreover, 6 8 satisfies the given conditions since its smallest factors greater than 1 are indeed 2 and 4 . Therefore, the answer is 6 8 .
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Suppose n is an odd number, then all of it's divisors will be odd and n = d 2 2 + d 3 2 will be even. Contradiction, n is even. It's immediate that d 2 = 2 and n = 4 + d 3 3 Now d 3 ∣ n and d 3 ∣ d 3 3 , so we must have d 3 ∣ 4 and d 3 = 4 since d 3 > 2 . n = 2 2 + 4 3 = 6 8 n = 6 8 indeed satisfies the conditions of problem.