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On a conjecture on shifted primes with large prime factors

Number Theory 2022-11-04 v2

Abstract

Let P\mathcal{P} be the set of all primes and π(x)\pi(x) be the number of primes up to xx. For any n2n\ge 2, let P+(n)P^+(n) be the largest prime factor of nn. For 0<c<10<c<1, let Tc(x)=#{px:pP,P+(p1)pc}.T_c(x)=\#\{p\le x:p\in \mathcal{P},P^+(p-1)\ge p^c\}. In this note, we proved that there exists some c<1c<1 such that lim supxTc(x)π(x)<12,\limsup_{x\rightarrow\infty}\frac{T_c(x)}{\pi(x)}<\frac12, which disproves a conjecture of Chen and Chen.

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@article{arxiv.2208.11316,
  title  = {On a conjecture on shifted primes with large prime factors},
  author = {Yuchen Ding},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.11316},
  year   = {2022}
}