# Math Help - Euler's totient function

1. ## Euler's totient function

Find all positive integers n, such that $\phi(n)$ is a prime.

2. Originally Posted by o_O
We must have that $n$ is prime, since otherwise $\phi (n)$ would have more than one prime factor.
Careful, remember that $\phi(2)=1$. For example $\phi(6)=2$.

To streethot: You should not have problems if you use the formula for the phi function (the one that uses the prime descomposition ), along with the observation o_O made that $\phi(n)$ is either an even number, or the number 1.

3. If $\phi(n)$ is prime, then $\varphi(n)=2$, because if we have $\varphi(n)= n\prod_{p|n} \left( 1-\frac{1}{p} \right)$, its easy to see that $\prod_{p|n} \left( 1-\frac{1}{p} \right)\neq 1$ for $n\ge 2$

if $\varphi(n)=(p_1 - 1) p_1^{k_1-1}...(p_n -1)p_n^{k_n-1}$ we have this inequality:

$(p_1 - 1) p_1^{k_1-1}...(p_n -1)p_n^{k_n-1}\leq(p_1 - 1) p_1^{k_1}...(p_n -1)p_n^{k_n}$ for $\varphi(n)$

now, its possible to say that the n is in the form $2^k.3^m$

$n=\{3,4,6\}$

Proceed?