sums of factors in GF(2)
Marc LeBrun
mlb at well.com
Wed Aug 2 00:35:03 CEST 2006
Recently I've been trying to exhort the Sequence Phanatiques to
compute analogs of the sum-of-prime-factors (with and without
multiplicity) in other arithmetics, such as Gaussian integers, GF(2), etc.
I was wondering, specifically about GF(2), summing (ie XORing) the
prime factors of N with multiplicity:
Noting that only the square-free part of N matters, since the square
parts sum to 0...
A. Aside from the perfect squares (eg 5) are there any other N that
sum to 0? Can they be characterized?
B. If some sum S occurs for any N then it occurs infinitely, for all
the square multiples of N. Does every value of S occur?
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