A291782 - OEIS

A291782

Let f_k(n) be the result of applying phi (the Euler totient function A000010) k times to n; a(n) = n*Product_{k=1..oo} f_k(n).

1, 2, 6, 8, 40, 12, 84, 64, 108, 80, 880, 96, 1248, 168, 960, 1024, 17408, 216, 4104, 1280, 2016, 1760, 40480, 1536, 32000, 2496, 5832, 2688, 77952, 1920, 59520, 32768, 42240, 34816, 53760, 3456, 127872, 8208, 59904, 40960, 1679360, 4032, 173376, 56320

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OFFSET

1,2

COMMENTS

The logarithmic scatterplot of this sequence shows a banded structure similar to that of A092694. - Rémy Sigrist, Sep 03 2017

LINKS

Rémy Sigrist, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000

Paul Erdős, Andrew Granville, Carl Pomerance and Claudia Spiro, On the normal behavior of the iterates of some arithmetic functions, Analytic number theory, Birkhäuser Boston, 1990, pp. 165-204.

Paul Erdos, Andrew Granville, Carl Pomerance and Claudia Spiro, On the normal behavior of the iterates of some arithmetic functions, Analytic number theory, Birkhäuser Boston, 1990, pp. 165-204. [Annotated copy with A-numbers]

FORMULA

a(n) = n * A092694(n). - Rémy Sigrist, Sep 03 2017

EXAMPLE

Under phi, 7 -> 6 -> 2 -> 1, so a(7) = 7*6*2 = 84.

MATHEMATICA

Table[Times @@ FixedPointList[EulerPhi, n], {n, 44}] (* Michael De Vlieger, Sep 03 2017 *)

CROSSREFS

Cf. A000010, A092694, A291783.

Sequence in context: A045653 A235320 A152158 * A327271 A335111 A337882

Adjacent sequences: A291779 A291780 A291781 * A291783 A291784 A291785

KEYWORD

nonn,look

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane, Sep 02 2017

STATUS

approved