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Maximal number of terms in any factorization of n.

Number of prime powers (not including 1) that divide n.

Sum of exponents in prime-power factorization of n. - Daniel Forgues, Mar 29 2009

Sum_{d|n} 2^(-A001221(d) - a(n/d)) = Sum_{d|n} 2^(-a(d) - A001221(n/d)) = 1 (see Dressler and van de Lune link). - Michel Marcus, Dec 18 2012

Row sums in A067255. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Jun 11 2013

Conjecture: Let f(n) = (x+y)^a(n), and g(n) = x^a(n), and h(n) = (x+y)^A046660(n) * y^A001221(n) with x, y complex numbers and 0^0 = 1. Then f(n) = Sum_{d|n} g(d)*h(n/d). This is proved for x = 1-y (see Dressler and van de Lune link). - Werner Schulte, Feb 10 2018

Let r, s be some fixed integers. Then we have:

(1) The sequence b(n) = Dirichlet convolution of r^bigomega(n) and s^bigomega(n) is multiplicative with b(p^e) = (r^(e+1)-s^(e+1))/(r-s) for prime p and e >= 0. The case r = s leads to b(p^e) = (e+1)*r^e.

(2) The sequence c(n) = Dirichlet convolution of r^bigomega(n) and mu(n)*s^bigomega(n) is multiplicative with c(p^e) = (r-s)*r^(e-1) and c(1) = 1 for prime p and e > 0 where mu(n) = A008683(n). - Werner Schulte, Feb 20 2019

a(n) is also the length of the composition series for every solvable group of order n. - Miles Englezou, Apr 25 2024

This sequence is a permutation of A025487.

And thus also a permutation of A181812, see the formula section. - Antti Karttunen, Jul 21 2014

A previous description of this sequence was: "Multiplicative with a(p^e) equal to the product of the e-th powers of all primes at most p" (see extensions), Giuseppe Coppoletta, Feb 28 2015

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 sums of the first 10^k terms, for k = 1, 2, ..., are 14, 168, 1779, 17959, 180665, 1808044, 18084622, 180856637, 1808585068, 18085891506, ... . Apparently, the asymptotic mean of this sequence is limit_{m->oo} (1/m) * Sum_{k=1..m} a(k) = 1.8085... . - Amiram Eldar, Sep 10 2022

This sequence and A000028 (its complement) give the unique solution to the problem of splitting the positive integers into two classes in such a way that products of pairs of distinct elements from either class occur with the same multiplicities [Lambek and Moser]. Cf. A000069, A001969.

See A000028 for precise definition, Maple program, etc.

The sequence contains products of even number of distinct terms of A050376. - Vladimir Shevelev, May 04 2010

From Vladimir Shevelev, Oct 28 2013: (Start)

Numbers m such that the infinitary Möbius function (A064179) of m equals 1. (This follows from the definition of A064179.)

A number m is in the sequence iff the number k = k(m) of terms of A050376 that divide m with odd maximal exponent is even (see example).

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Numbers k for which A064547(k) [or equally, A268386(k)] is even. Numbers k for which A010060(A268387(k)) = 0. - Antti Karttunen, Feb 09 2016

The sequence is closed under the commutative binary operation A059897(.,.). As integers are self-inverse under A059897(.,.), it therefore forms a subgroup of the positive integers considered as a group under A059897(.,.). Specifically (expanding on the comment above dated May 04 2010) it is the subgroup of even length words in A050376, which is the group's lexicographically earliest ordered minimal set of generators. A000028, the set of odd length words in A050376, is its complementary coset. - Peter Munn, Nov 01 2019

From Amiram Eldar, Oct 02 2024: (Start)

Numbers whose number of infinitary divisors (A037445) is a square.

Numbers whose exponentially odious part (A367514) has an even number of distinct prime factors, i.e., numbers k such that A092248(A367514(k)) = 0. (End)

From Peter Munn, Apr 06 2021: (Start)

a(n) is determined by the prime signature of n.

Compare with the multiplicative, self-inverse A225546, which also maps 2^e to the squarefree number A019565(e). However, this sequence maps p^e to the same squarefree number for every prime p, whereas A225546 maps the e-th power of progressively larger primes to progressively greater powers of A019565(e).

Both sequences map powers of squarefree numbers to powers of squarefree numbers.

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Old name: 'Positions of zeros in A268387: numbers n such that when the exponents e_1 .. e_k in their prime factorization n = p_1^e_1 * ... * p_k^e_k are bitwise-xored together, the result is zero.

From Peter Munn, Sep 14 2019 and Dec 01 2019: (Start)

When trailing zeros are removed from the terms written in base p, for any prime p, every positive integer not divisible by p appears exactly once. This is the lexicographically earliest sequence with this property.

The closure of A238748 with respect to the commutative binary operation A059897(.,.). As integers are self-inverse under A059897(.,.), the sequence thereby forms a subgroup, denoted H, of the positive integers under A059897(.,.). H is a subgroup of A000379.

(The symbol ^ can take on a meaning in relation to a group operation. However, in this comment ^ denotes the power operator for standard integer multiplication.) For any prime p, the subgroup {p^k : k >= 0} and H are each a (left and right) transversal of the other. For k >= 0 and primes p_1 and p_2, the cosets (p_1^k)H and (p_2^k)H are the same.

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From Peter Munn, Dec 01 2021: (Start)

If we take the square root of the square terms we reproduce the sequence itself. The set of all products of a square term and a squarefree term is the sequence as a set.

The terms are the elements of the ideal generated by {6} in the ring defined in A329329. Similarly, the ideal generated by {8} gives A262675. 6 and 8 are images of each other under A225546(.), which is an automorphism of the ring. So this sequence and A262675, as sets, are images of each other under A225546(.). The elements of the ideal generated by {6,8} form the notable set A000379.

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