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An improvement on the largest prime factors of consecutive integers

Number Theory 2026-07-17 v1

Abstract

Let P+(n)P^+(n) denote the largest prime factor of nn. One of Erd\H{o}s and Tur\'an's conjectures asserts that the asymptotic density of integers nn satisfying P+(n)<P+(n+1)P^+(n)<P^+(n+1) is 1/2. In this paper, we prove that this density is larger than 0.280, which improves the previous result 0.2017 by L\"u and Wang (2025). We also prove that there exists a positive density of nn such that P+(n)<P+(n+1)<x41/107+εP^+(n)<P^+(n+1)<x^{41/107+\varepsilon}. Define Tc(x):=#{px:P+(p1)pc}T_c(x):=\#\{p\leq x:P^+(p-1)\geq p^c\}. For 1/2<c<11/2<c<1, we also show that \begin{align*} \mathop{\lim \sup}_{x\rightarrow\infty}\frac{T_c(x)}{\pi(x)}\leq \min\left(-\frac{7}{2}\log c,\frac{1-\delta}{2c}\right), \end{align*} where δ=δ(c)>0\delta=\delta(c)>0.

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@article{arxiv.2607.16032,
  title  = {An improvement on the largest prime factors of consecutive integers},
  author = {Zhiyuan Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.16032},
  year   = {2026}
}

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