Unitary divisor

In mathematics, a natural number a is a unitary divisor of a number b if a is a divisor of b and if a and \frac{b}{a} are coprime, having no common factor other than 1. Thus, 5 is a unitary divisor of 60, because 5 and \frac{60}{5}=12 have only 1 as a common factor, while 6 is a divisor but not a unitary divisor of 60, as 6 and \frac{60}{6}=10 have a common factor other than 1, namely 2. 1 is a unitary divisor of every natural number.

Equivalently, a given divisor a of b is a unitary divisor iff every prime factor of a has the same multiplicity in a as it has in b.

The sum of unitary divisors function is denoted by the lowercase Greek letter sigma thus: σ*(n). The sum of the k-th powers of the unitary divisors is denoted by σ*k(n):

\sigma_k^*(n) = \sum_{d\mid n, gcd(d,n/d)=1} d^k.

If the proper unitary divisors of a given number add up to that number, then that number is called a unitary perfect number.

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Properties

The number of unitary divisors of a number n is 2k, where k is the number of distinct prime factors of n. The sum of the unitary divisors of n is odd if n is a power of 2 (including 1), and even otherwise.

Both the count and the sum of the unitary divisors of n are multiplicative functions of n that are not completely multiplicative. The Dirichlet generating function is

\frac{\zeta(s)\zeta(s-k)}{\zeta(2s-k)} = \sum_{n\ge 1}\frac{\sigma_k^*(n)}{n^s}.

Odd unitary divisors

The sum of the k-th powers of the odd unitary divisors is

\sigma_k^{(o)*}(n) = \sum_{d\mid n, d\equiv 1 \pmod 2, gcd(d,n/d)=1} d^k.

It is also multiplicative, with Dirichlet generating function

\frac{\zeta(s)\zeta(s-k)(1-2^{k-s})}{\zeta(2s-k)(1-2^{k-2s})} = \sum_{n\ge 1}\frac{\sigma_k^{(o)*}(n)}{n^s}.

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 A068068 is σ(o)*0(n).  A192066 is σ(o)*1(n).