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February 16

On Zriaa's claimed proof of Lehmer's totient problem

I'm reading Said Zriaa's claimed proof of Lehmer's totient problem, and I follow up until the very last point, where Zriia claims that $\prod _{j=1}^{r}p_{j}-1$ cannot divide $\sum _{j=1}^{r-1}\sigma _{j}(p_{1}-1,\ldots ,p_{r}-1)$ because of lemma 2.2. In particular, I understand why lemma 2.2 holds for inequality for polynomials, but is there any particular reason why it should hold for constant $x_{j}=p_{j}-1$? GalacticShoe (talk) 22:18, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

Gotta agree with you, that is not all evident. NadVolum (talk) 23:05, 16 February 2023 (UTC)