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Computational Evidence for Lehmer's Totient Conjecture
Author

John Renze
Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
Department: Information Resources
Revision date

2004-11-23
Description

In 1932, D. H. Lehmer considered the equation k ϕ[N] == N - 1. for positive integers N and k. If N is prime, then the equation has a solution with k = 1. He conjectured that these are the only solutions.

Conjecture: Let a be a positive integer. Then ϕ[N] divides N - 1 if and only if N is prime.

The conjecture remains open to this day. The current best result, due to Cohen and Hagis, is that N must have at least 14 prime factors and be greater than 10^22. The code in this notebook carries out a search for a counter-example to Lehmer's conjecture and extends these limits.
Subject

*Mathematics > Number Theory
Keywords

Lehmer Totient
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