scholarly journals ON THE LARGEST PRIME FACTOR OF THE MERSENNE NUMBERS

2009 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 455-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
KEVIN FORD ◽  
FLORIAN LUCA ◽  
IGOR E. SHPARLINSKI

AbstractLetP(k) be the largest prime factor of the positive integerk. In this paper, we prove that the seriesis convergent for each constantα<1/2, which gives a more precise form of a result of C. L. Stewart [‘On divisors of Fermat, Fibonacci, Lucas and Lehmer numbers’,Proc. London Math. Soc.35(3) (1977), 425–447].

Author(s):  
D. R. Heath-Brown

A positive integer n is called square-full if p2|n for every prime factor p of n. Let Q(x) denote the number of square-full integers up to x. It was shown by Bateman and Grosswald [1] thatBateman and Grosswald also remarked that any improvement in the exponent would imply a ‘quasi-Riemann Hypothesis’ of the type for . Thus (1) is essentially as sharp as one can hope for at present. From (1) it follows that, for the number of square-full integers in a short interval, we havewhen and y = o (x½). (It seems more suggestive) to write the interval as (x, x + x½y]) than (x, x + y], since only intervals of length x½ or more can be of relevance here.)


1991 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 350-358
Author(s):  
Glyn Harman

Following Masser and Shiu [6] we say that a positive integer n is sparsely totient ifHere φ is the familiar Euler totient function. We write ℱ for the set of sparsely totient numbers. In [6] several results are proved about the multiplicative structure of ℱ. If we write P(n) for the largest prime factor of n then it was shown (Theorem 2 of [6]) thatand infinitely often


2018 ◽  
Vol 107 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
JIE WU

Denote by$\mathbb{P}$the set of all prime numbers and by$P(n)$the largest prime factor of positive integer$n\geq 1$with the convention$P(1)=1$. In this paper, we prove that, for each$\unicode[STIX]{x1D702}\in (\frac{32}{17},2.1426\cdots \,)$, there is a constant$c(\unicode[STIX]{x1D702})>1$such that, for every fixed nonzero integer$a\in \mathbb{Z}^{\ast }$, the set$$\begin{eqnarray}\{p\in \mathbb{P}:p=P(q-a)\text{ for some prime }q\text{ with }p^{\unicode[STIX]{x1D702}}<q\leq c(\unicode[STIX]{x1D702})p^{\unicode[STIX]{x1D702}}\}\end{eqnarray}$$has relative asymptotic density one in$\mathbb{P}$. This improves a similar result due to Banks and Shparlinski [‘On values taken by the largest prime factor of shifted primes’,J. Aust. Math. Soc.82(2015), 133–147], Theorem 1.1, which requires$\unicode[STIX]{x1D702}\in (\frac{32}{17},2.0606\cdots \,)$in place of$\unicode[STIX]{x1D702}\in (\frac{32}{17},2.1426\cdots \,)$.


1996 ◽  
Vol 119 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. N. Huxley ◽  
O. Trifonov

A positive integer is square-full if each prime factor occurs to the second power or higher. Each square-full number can be written uniquely as a square times the cube of a square-free number. The perfect squares make up more than three-quarters of the sequence {si} of square-full numbers, so that a pair of consecutive square-full numbers is a pair of consecutive squares at least half the time, with


1961 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Rankin

For any positive integers n and v letwhere d runs through all the positive divisors of n. For each positive integer k and real x > 1, denote by N(v, k; x) the number of positive integers n ≦ x for which σv(n) is not divisible by k. Then Watson [6] has shown that, when v is odd,as x → ∞; it is assumed here and throughout that v and k are fixed and independent of x. It follows, in particular, that σ (n) is almost always divisible by k. A brief account of the ideas used by Watson will be found in § 10.6 of Hardy's book on Ramanujan [2].


1955 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 347-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. H. Lehmer

This paper is concerned with the numbers which are relatively prime to a given positive integerwhere the p's are the distinct prime factors of n. Since these numbers recur periodically with period n, it suffices to study the ϕ(n) numbers ≤n and relatively prime to n.


1968 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. J. Rayner

Letkbe any algebraically closed field, and denote byk((t)) the field of formal power series in one indeterminatetoverk. Letso thatKis the field of Puiseux expansions with coefficients ink(each element ofKis a formal power series intl/rfor some positive integerr). It is well-known thatKis algebraically closed if and only ifkis of characteristic zero [1, p. 61]. For examples relating to ramified extensions of fields with valuation [9, §6] it is useful to have a field analogous toKwhich is algebraically closed whenkhas non-zero characteristicp. In this paper, I prove that the setLof all formal power series of the form Σaitei(where (ei) is well-ordered,ei=mi|nprt,n∈ Ζ,mi∈ Ζ,ai∈k,ri∈ Ν) forms an algebraically closed field.


1953 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 119-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fouad M. Ragab

§ 1. Introductory. The formula to be established iswhere m is a positive integer,and the constants are such that the integral converges.


1963 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. M. Ragab

It is proposed to establish the two following integrals.where n is a positive integer, x is real and positive, μi and ν are complex, and Δ (n; a) represents the set of parameterswhere n is a positive integer and x is real and positive.


1964 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 94-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
David G. Cantor

Let n be a positive integer and put N = {1, 2, . . . , n}. A collection {S1, S2, . . . , St} of subsets of N is called determining if, for any T ⊂ N, the cardinalities of the t intersections T ∩ Sj determine T uniquely. Let €1, €2, . . . , €n be n variables with range {0, 1}. It is clear that a determining collection {Sj) has the property that the sums


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