On odd perfect numbers with exactly one even exponent greater than 2

2026/07/22 by Pascal Ochem, Joshua Zelinsky
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Abstract

We show that if all the even exponents of an odd perfect number N are equal to 2 except for one, then 3^{23,000,000,000} divides N .

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