Duality between prime factors and the Prime Number Theorem for Arithmetic Progressions -- II
Abstract
In the first paper under this title (1977), the first author utilized a duality identity between the largest and smallest prime factors involving the Moebius function, to establish the following result as a consequence of the Prime Number Theorem for Arithmetic Progressions: If and are positive integers, with and , then where is the Moebius function, is the smallest prime factor of , and is the Euler function. Here we utilize the next level Duality identity between the second largest prime factor and the smallest prime factor, involving the Moebius function and , the number of distinct prime factors of , to establish the following result as a consequence of the Prime Number Theorem for Arithmetic Progressions: For all and as above, A quantitative version of this result is proved.
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@article{arxiv.2410.18259,
title = {Duality between prime factors and the Prime Number Theorem for Arithmetic Progressions -- II},
author = {Krishnaswami Alladi and Jason Johnson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.18259},
year = {2024}
}