OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
The 26 entries starting with a(2) = 6 are products of powers of consecutive primes starting with 2, except for a(12) = 32760 and a(15) = 98280 (which are missing 11), and a(26) = 942480 (which is missing 13).
a(n) is the smallest number k such that the symmetric representation of sigma(k) has n layers. For more information see A279387. - Omar E. Pol, Dec 16 2016
Row 1 of A253258. - Omar E. Pol, Apr 15 2018
From Hartmut F. W. Hoft, Jun 10 2024: (Start)
All terms a(n) <= 1.75*10^7 have a symmetric representation of sigma that consists of a single part and they are abundant for n > 2. Numbers a(1) = 1, a(2) = 6, and a(4) = 120 are unimodal while numbers a(6) = 840, a(14) = 50400, a(18) = 138600, a(24) = 960960, a(26) = 942480, a(32) = 2827440, a(44) = 8648640 have a single extent of maximum width, but are not unimodal.
Conjecture: The symmetric representation of sigma for every term consists of a single part and it is unimodal only for a(1), a(2), and a(4).
As a consequence, this sequence would be a subsequence of A174973, and all a(n), n > 2, would be abundant. (End)
LINKS
Hartmut F. W. Hoft, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..48
FORMULA
a(n) = min(k such that A250068(k) = n), n >= 1.
EXAMPLE
a(3) = 60 since the symmetric representation of sigma(60) = 168 consists of a single region of whose successive widths are 41 1's, 9 2's, 6 3's, 7 2's, 6 3's, 9 2's, and 41 1's.
a(6) = 840 has a single extent of 12 units of width 6 centered around point (583,583) on the diagonal, but is not unimodal. - Hartmut F. W. Hoft, Jun 10 2024
MATHEMATICA
(* function a2[ ] is defined in A249223 *)
a250070[{j_, k_}, b_] := Module[{i, max, acc={{1, 1}}}, For[i=j, i<=k, i++, max={Max[a2[i]], i}; If[max[[1]]>b && !MemberQ[Transpose[acc][[1]], max[[1]]], AppendTo[acc, max]]]; acc]
(* returns (argument, result) data pairs since sequence is non-monotonic *)
Sort[a250070[{1, 1000000}, 1]] (* computed in steps *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Hartmut F. W. Hoft, Nov 11 2014
EXTENSIONS
a(28)-a(48) from Hartmut F. W. Hoft, Jun 10 2024
STATUS
approved