Note on shifted primes with large prime factors
Number Theory
2026-02-06 v2
Abstract
We denote by the largest prime factor of the integer . In 1935, Erd\H os studied the quantity defined by and he proved Recently, Ding gave a quantitative form of Erd\H os' result, showing that holds for . In this paper, we improve Ding's upper bound to for .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2510.04026,
title = {Note on shifted primes with large prime factors},
author = {Yuchen Ding and Zhiwei Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.04026},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
some inaccuracies are revised