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Permutation of natural numbers; inverse: A066249.

A000040(a(n)) = A247797(n);

a permutation of the positive integers with inverse A250553.

Permutation of natural numbers; inverse: A066251.

a(A085971(n))=A000027(n) and for all k>1: a(A000040(n)^k)=A000027(n).

A pseudo-logarithmic function in the sense that a(b*c) = a(b)+a(c) and so a(b^c) = c*a(b) and f(n) = k^a(n) is a multiplicative function. [Cf. A248692 for example.] Essentially a function from the positive integers onto the partitions of the nonnegative integers (1->0, 2->1, 3->2, 4->1+1, 5->3, 6->1+2, etc.) so each value a(n) appears A000041(a(n)) times, first with the a(n)-th prime and last with the a(n)-th power of 2. Produces triangular numbers from primorials. - Henry Bottomley, Nov 22 2001

Michael Nyvang writes (May 08 2006) that the Danish composer Karl Aage Rasmussen discovered this sequence in the 1990's: it has excellent musical properties.

All A000041(a(n)) different n's with the same value a(n) are listed in row a(n) of triangle A215366. - Alois P. Heinz, Aug 09 2012

a(n) is the sum of the parts of the partition having Heinz number n. We define the Heinz number of a partition p = [p_1, p_2, ..., p_r] as Product_{j=1..r} (p_j-th prime) (concept used by Alois P. Heinz in A215366 as an "encoding" of a partition). For example, for the partition [1, 1, 2, 4, 10] we get 2*2*3*7*29 = 2436. Example: a(33) = 7 because the partition with Heinz number 33 = 3 * 11 is [2,5]. - Emeric Deutsch, May 19 2015

This is an enumeration of all partitions.

Technically this is an enumeration of all multisets (finite weakly increasing sequences of positive integers) rather than integer partitions. - Gus Wiseman, Dec 12 2016

A000040(a(n)) is a prime factor of A082288(n). - Reinhard Zumkeller, Feb 03 2008

Row n is the partition with Heinz number n. We define the Heinz number of a partition p = [p_1, p_2, ..., p_r] as Product(p_j-th prime, j=1..r) (concept used by Alois P. Heinz in A215366 as an "encoding" of a partition). For example, for the partition [1, 1, 2, 4, 10] we get 2*2*3*7*29 = 2436. For a given n, the 2nd Maple program yields row n; for example, we obtain at once B(2436) = [1,1,2,4,10]. - Emeric Deutsch, Jun 04 2015

From Emeric Deutsch, May 05 2015: (Start)

Number of entries in row n is bigomega(n) (i.e., the number of prime factors of n, multiplicities included).

Product of entries in row n = A003963(n).

Row n contains the Matula numbers of the rooted trees obtained from the rooted tree with Matula number n by deleting the edges emanating from the root. Example: row 8 is 1,1,1; indeed the rooted tree with Matula number 8 is \|/ and deleting the edges emanating from the root we obtain three one-vertex trees, having Matula numbers 1, 1, 1. Example: row 7 is 4; indeed, the rooted tree with Matula number 7 is Y and deleting the edges emanating from the root we obtain the rooted tree V, having Matula number 4.

The Matula (or Matula-Goebel) number of a rooted tree can be defined in the following recursive manner: to the one-vertex tree there corresponds the number 1; to a tree T with root degree 1 there corresponds the t-th prime number, where t is the Matula-Goebel number of the tree obtained from T by deleting the edge emanating from the root; to a tree T with root degree m >= 2 there corresponds the product of the Matula-Goebel numbers of the m branches of T. (End)

Meyers (see Guy reference) conjectures that for all r >= 1, the least odd number not in the set {a(i): i < prime(r)} is prime(r+1). - N. J. A. Sloane, Jan 08 2021

Meyers' conjecture would be refuted if and only if for some r there were such a large gap between prime(r) and prime(r+1) that there existed a composite c for which prime(r) < c < a(c) < prime(r+1), in which case (by Bertrand's postulate) c would necessarily be a term of A246281. - Antti Karttunen, Mar 29 2021

a(n) is odd for all n and for each odd m there exists a k with a(k) = m (see A064216). a(n) > n for n > 1: bijection between the odd and all numbers. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Sep 26 2001

a(n) and n have the same number of distinct primes with (A001222) and without multiplicity (A001221). - Michel Marcus, Jun 13 2014

From Antti Karttunen, Nov 01 2019: (Start)

More generally, a(n) has the same prime signature as n, A046523(a(n)) = A046523(n). Also A246277(a(n)) = A246277(n) and A287170(a(n)) = A287170(n).

Many permutations and other sequences that employ prime factorization of n to encode either polynomials, partitions (via Heinz numbers) or multisets in general can be easily defined by using this sequence as one of their constituent functions. See the last line in the Crossrefs section for examples.

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