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Multiplicative with a(p^e) = p.

Product of the distinct prime factors of n.

a(k)=k for k=squarefree numbers A005117. - Lekraj Beedassy, Sep 05 2006

A note on square roots of numbers: we can write sqrt(n) = b*sqrt(c) where c is squarefree. Then b = A000188(n) is the "inner square root" of n, c = A007913(n), b*c = A019554(n) = "outer square root" of n, and a(n) = lcm(a(b),c). Unless n is biquadrateful (A046101), a(n) = lcm(b,c). [Edited by Jeppe Stig Nielsen, Oct 10 2021, and Andrey Zabolotskiy, Feb 12 2025]

a(n) = A128651(A129132(n-1) + 2) for n > 1. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Mar 30 2007

Also the least common multiple of the prime factors of n. - Peter Luschny, Mar 22 2011

The Mobius transform of the sequence generates the sequence of absolute values of A097945. - R. J. Mathar, Apr 04 2011

Appears to be the period length of k^n mod n. For example, n^12 mod 12 has period 6, repeating 1,4,9,4,1,0, so a(12)= 6. - Gary Detlefs, Apr 14 2013

a(n) differs from A014963(n) when n is a term of A024619. - Eric Desbiaux, Mar 24 2014

a(n) is also the smallest base (also termed radix) for which the representation of 1/n is of finite length. For example a(12) = 6 and 1/12 in base 6 is 0.03, which is of finite length. - Lee A. Newberg, Jul 27 2016

a(n) is also the divisor k of n such that d(k) = 2^omega(n). a(n) is also the smallest divisor u of n such that n divides u^n. - Juri-Stepan Gerasimov, Apr 06 2017

Or, triangle X(n,m) = T(n-m+1,m) read by rows, in which row n gives the numbers n*1, (n-1)*2, (n-2)*3, ..., 2*(n-1), 1*n.

Radius of incircle of Pythagorean triangle with sides a=(n+1)^2-m^2, b=2*(n+1)*m and c=(n+1)^2+m^2. - Floor van Lamoen, Aug 16 2001

A permutation of A061017. - Matthew Vandermast, Feb 28 2003

In the proof of countability of rational numbers they are arranged in a square array. a(n) = p*q where p/q is the corresponding rational number as read from the array. - Amarnath Murthy, May 29 2003

Permanent of upper right n X n corner is A000442. - Marc LeBrun, Dec 11 2003

Row 12 gives total number of partridges, turtle doves, ... and drummers drumming that you have received at the end of the Twelve Days of Christmas song. - Alonso del Arte, Jun 17 2005

Consider a particle with spin S (a half-integer) and 2S+1 quantum states |m>, m = -S,-S+1,...,S-1,S. Then the matrix element = sqrt((S+m+1)(S-m)) of the spin-raising operator is the square-root of the triangular (tabl) element T(r,o) of this sequence in row r = 2S, and at offset o=2(S+m). T(r,o) is also the intensity || of the transition between the states |m> and |m+1>. For example, the five transitions between the 6 states of a spin S=5/2 particle have relative intensities 5,8,9,8,5. The total intensity of all spin 5/2 transitions (relative to spin 1/2) is 35, which is the tetrahedral number A000292(5). - Stanislav Sykora, May 26 2012

Sum_{k=0..2n-2} (-1)^k*a(A000124(2n-2)+k) = n. See A098359. - Charlie Marion, Apr 22 2013

T(n, k) is also the (k-1)-superdiagonal sum of an n X n Toeplitz matrix M(n) whose first row consists of successive positive integer numbers 1, ..., n. - Stefano Spezia, Jul 12 2019

From Eric Lengyel, Jun 28 2023: (Start)

X(n, m+1) is the number of degrees of freedom that an m-dimensional flat geometry (point, line, plane, etc.) has when embedded in an n-dimensional Euclidean space.

X(n+1, m+1) is the number of degrees of freedom that an m-ball has when embedded in an n-dimensional Euclidean space. (End)

T(n, k) is also the average number of steps it takes a person to fall off a board of length n+k, if the person starts a random walk at k. - Ruediger Jehn, May 12 2025

This is a multiplicative self-inverse permutation of the integers.

A225547 gives the fixed points.

From Antti Karttunen and Peter Munn, Feb 02 2020: (Start)

This sequence operates on the Fermi-Dirac factors of a number. As arranged in array form, in A329050, this sequence reflects these factors about the main diagonal of the array, substituting A329050[j,i] for A329050[i,j], and this results in many relationships including significant homomorphisms.

This sequence provides a relationship between the operations of squaring and prime shift (A003961) because each successive column of the A329050 array is the square of the previous column, and each successive row is the prime shift of the previous row.

A329050 gives examples of how significant sets of numbers can be formed by choosing their factors in relation to rows and/or columns. This sequence therefore maps equivalent derived sets by exchanging rows and columns. Thus odd numbers are exchanged for squares, squarefree numbers for powers of 2 etc.

Alternative construction: For n > 1, form a vector v of length A299090(n), where each element v[i] for i=1..A299090(n) is a product of those distinct prime factors p(i) of n whose exponent e(i) has the bit (i-1) "on", or 1 (as an empty product) if no such exponents are present. a(n) is then Product_{i=1..A299090(n)} A000040(i)^A048675(v[i]). Note that because each element of vector v is squarefree, it means that each exponent A048675(v[i]) present in the product is a "submask" (not all necessarily proper) of the binary string A087207(n).

This permutation effects the following mappings:

A000035(a(n)) = A010052(n), A010052(a(n)) = A000035(n). [Odd numbers <-> Squares]

A008966(a(n)) = A209229(n), A209229(a(n)) = A008966(n). [Squarefree numbers <-> Powers of 2]

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From Antti Karttunen, Jul 08 2020: (Start)

Moreover, we see also that this sequence maps between A016825 (Numbers of the form 4k+2) and A001105 (2*squares) as well as between A008586 (Multiples of 4) and A028983 (Numbers with even sum of the divisors).

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This sequence is different from A058061 for n containing 6th, 8th, ..., k-th powers in its prime decomposition, where k runs through the integers missing from A064548.

For n > 1, n is a product of a(n) distinct members of A050376. - Matthew Vandermast, Jul 13 2004

For n > 1: a(n) = length of n-th row in A213925. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Mar 20 2013

Number of Fermi-Dirac factors of n. - Peter Munn, Dec 27 2019

Old name: Square array read by antidiagonals: T(i,j) = product prime(k)^(Ei(k) XOR Ej(k)) where Ei and Ej are the vectors of exponents in the prime factorizations of i and j; XOR is the bitwise operation on binary representation of the exponents.

Analogous to multiplication, with XOR replacing +.

From Peter Munn, Apr 01 2019: (Start)

(1) Defines an abelian group whose underlying set is the positive integers. (2) Every element is self-inverse. (3) For all n and k, A(n,k) is a divisor of n*k. (4) The terms of A050376, sometimes called Fermi-Dirac primes, form a minimal set of generators. In ordered form, it is the lexicographically earliest such set.

The unique factorization of positive integers into products of distinct terms of the group's lexicographically earliest minimal set of generators seems to follow from (1) (2) and (3).

From (1) and (2), every row and every column of the table is a self-inverse permutation of the positive integers. Rows/columns numbered by nonmembers of A050376 are compositions of earlier rows/columns.

It is a subgroup of the equivalent group over the nonzero integers, which has -1 as an additional generator.

As generated by A050376, the subgroup of even length words is A000379. The complementary set of odd length words is A000028.

The subgroup generated by A000040 (the primes) is A005117 (the squarefree numbers).

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Considered as a binary operation, the result is (the squarefree part of the product of its operands) times the square of (the operation's result when applied to the square roots of the square parts of its operands). - Peter Munn, Mar 21 2022

The binary representation of a(n) shows which prime numbers divide n, but not the multiplicities. a(2)=1, a(3)=10, a(4)=1, a(5)=100, a(6)=11, a(10)=101, a(30)=111, etc.

For n > 1, a(n) gives the (one-based) index of the column where n is located in array A285321. A008479 gives the other index. - Antti Karttunen, Apr 17 2017

From Antti Karttunen, Jun 18 & 20 2017: (Start)

A268335 gives all n such that a(n) = A248663(n); the squarefree numbers (A005117) are all the n such that a(n) = A285330(n) = A048675(n).

For all n > 1 for which the value of A285331(n) is well-defined, we have A285331(a(n)) <= floor(A285331(n)/2), because then n is included in the binary tree A285332 and a(n) is one of its ancestors (in that tree), and thus must be at least one step nearer to its root than n itself.

Conjecture: Starting at any n and iterating the map n -> a(n), we will always reach 0 (see A288569). This conjecture is equivalent to the conjecture that at any n that is neither a prime nor a power of two, we will eventually hit a prime number (which then becomes a power of two in the next iteration). If this conjecture is false then sequence A285332 cannot be a permutation of natural numbers. On the other hand, if the conjecture is true, then A285332 must be a permutation of natural numbers, because all primes and powers of 2 occur in definite positions in that tree. This conjecture also implies the conjectures made in A019565 and A285320 that essentially claim that there are neither finite nor infinite cycles in A019565.

If there are any 2-cycles in this sequence, then both terms of the cycle should be present in A286611 and the larger one should be present in A286612.

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Binary rank of the distinct prime indices of n, where the binary rank of an integer partition y is given by Sum_i 2^(y_i-1). For all prime indices (with multiplicity) we have A048675. - Gus Wiseman, May 25 2024

For any number n > 0, let f(n) be the polynomial in a single indeterminate x where the coefficient of x^e is the prime(1+e)-adic valuation of n (where prime(k) denotes the k-th prime); f establishes a bijection between the positive numbers and the polynomials in a single indeterminate x with nonnegative integer coefficients; let g be the inverse of f; T(n, k) = g(f(n) * f(k)).

This table has many similarities with A248601.

For any n > 0 and m > 0, f(n * m) = f(n) + f(m).

Also, f(1) = 0 and f(2) = 1.

The function f can be naturally extended to the set of positive rational numbers: if r = u/v (not necessarily in reduced form), then f(r) = f(u) - f(v); as such, f is a homomorphism from the multiplicative group of positive rational numbers to the additive group of polynomials of a single indeterminate x with integer coefficients.

See A297473 for the main diagonal of T.

As a binary operation, T(.,.) is related to A306697(.,.) and A329329(.,.). When their operands are terms of A050376 (sometimes called Fermi-Dirac primes) the three operations give the same result. However the rest of the multiplication table for T(.,.) can be derived from these results because T(.,.) distributes over integer multiplication (A003991), whereas for A306697 and A329329, the equivalent derivation uses distribution over A059896(.,.) and A059897(.,.) respectively. - Peter Munn, Mar 25 2020

From Peter Munn, Jun 16 2021: (Start)

The operation defined by this sequence can be extended to be the multiplicative operator of a ring over the positive rationals that is isomorphic to the polynomial ring Z[x]. The extended function f (described in the author's original comments) is the isomorphism we use, and it has the same relationship with the extended operation that exists between their unextended equivalents.

Denoting this extension of T(.,.) as t_Q(.,.), we get t_Q(n, 1/k) = t_Q(1/n, k) = 1/T(n, k) and t_Q(1/n, 1/k) = T(n, k) for positive integers n and k. The result for other rationals is derived from the distributive property: t_Q(q, r*s) = t_Q(q, r) * t_Q(q, s); t_Q(q*r, s) = t_Q(q, s) * t_Q(r, s). This may look unusual because standard multiplication of rational numbers takes on the role of the ring's additive group.

There are many OEIS sequences that can be shown to be a list of the integers in an ideal of this ring. See the cross-references.

There are some completely additive sequences that similarly define by extension completely additive functions on the positive rationals that can be shown to be homomorphisms from this ring onto the integer ring Z, and these functions relate to some of the ideals. For example, the extended function of A048675, denoted A048675_Q, maps i/j to A048675(i) - A048675(j) for positive integers i and j. For any positive integer k, the set {r rational > 0 : k divides A048675_Q(r)} forms an ideal of the ring; for k=2 and k=3 the integers in this ideal are listed in A003159 and A332820 respectively.

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As a binary operation, this sequence defines a commutative monoid over the positive integers that is isomorphic to multiplication. The self-inverse permutation A225546(.) provides an isomorphism. This monoid therefore has unique factorization. Its primes are the even terms of A050376: 2, 4, 16, 256, ..., which in standard integer multiplication are the powers of 2 with powers of 2 as exponents.

In this monoid, in contrast, the powers of 2 run through the squarefree numbers, the k-th power of 2 being A019565(k). 4 is irreducible and its powers are the squares of the squarefree numbers, the k-th power of 4 being A019565(k)^2 (where "^2" denotes standard integer squaring); and so on with powers of 16, 256, ...

In many cases the product of two numbers is the same here as in standard integer multiplication. See the formula section for details.