# Distribution and upper bound of mimic numbers

 Importance: Medium ✭✭
 Author(s): Bhattacharyya, M.
 Subject: Number Theory » Analytic Number Theory
 Keywords: Divisibility mimic function mimic number
 Prize: Not yet declared
 Posted by: facility_cttb@i... on: June 20th, 2009
Problem

Let the notation denote '' divides ''. The mimic function in number theory is defined as follows [1].

Definition   For any positive integer divisible by , the mimic function, , is given by,

By using this definition of mimic function, the mimic number of any non-prime integer is defined as follows [1].

Definition   The number is defined to be the mimic number of any positive integer , with respect to , for the minimum value of which .

Given these two definitions and a positive integer , find the distribution of mimic numbers of those numbers divisible by .

Again, find whether there is an upper bound of mimic numbers for a set of numbers divisible by any fixed positive integer .

## Bibliography

*[1] Malay Bhattacharyya, Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay and U Maulik, Non-primes are recursively divisible, Acta Universitatis Apulensis 19 (2009).

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