On the Within-perfect Numbers

Abstract

Motivated by the works of Erd\"os, Pomerance, Wolke and Harman on the sum-of-divisor function $\sigma(n)$, we study the distribution of a special class of natural numbers closely related to (multiply) perfect numbers which we term `$(\ell;k)$-within-perfect numbers', where $\ell >1$ is a real number and $k: [1, \infty) \rightarrow (0, \infty)$ is an increasing and unbounded function.