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In this paper, we study the linear independence between the distribution of the number of prime factors of integers and that of the largest prime factors of integers. Respectively, under a restriction on the largest prime factors of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-13 Biao Wang , Zhining Wei , Pan Yan , Shaoyun Yi

We show that for large integers $n$, whose ratios of consecutive divisors are bounded above by an arbitrary constant, the number of prime factors follows an approximate normal distribution, with mean $C \log_2 n$ and variance $V \log_2 n$,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-26 Gérald Tenenbaum , Andreas Weingartner

In this article we show that the Erd\H{o}s-Kac theorem, which informally states that the number of prime divisors of very large integers converges to a normal distribution, has an elegant proof via Algorithmic Information Theory.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Aidan Rocke

Given a natural number $n$, let $\omega\left(n\right)$ denote the number of distinct prime factors of $n$, let $Z$ denote a standard normal variable, and let $P_{n}$ denote the uniform distribution on $\left\{ 1,\ldots,n\right\} $. The…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Matthew Levy , Joseph Squillace

The Erd\H{o}s-Kac theorem is a celebrated result in number theory which says that the number of distinct prime factors of a uniformly chosen random integer satisfies a central limit theorem. In this paper, we establish the large deviations…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-03-10 Behzad Mehrdad , Lingjiong Zhu

Let $x\geqslant 3$, for $1\leqslant n \leqslant x$ an integer, let $\omega(n)$ be its number of distinct prime factors. We show that, among the values $n\leqslant x$ with $\omega(n)=k$ where $1\leqslant k \ll \log_2 x$, $\omega(n-1)$…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Olivier Garçonnet

We investigate the number of prime factors of individual entries for matrices in the special linear group over the integers. We show that, when properly normalised, it satisfies a central limit theorem of Erd\H{o}s-Kac-type. To do so, we…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-04 Daniel El-Baz

Given $n\in\mathbb{N}$, let $\omega\left(n\right)$ denote the number of distinct prime factors of $n$, let $Z$ denote a standard normal variable, and let $P_{n}$ denote the uniform distribution on $\left\{ 1,\ldots,n\right\} $. The…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Joseph Squillace

Transforming the Erd\H{o}s-Kac theorem provides more flexibility in how the theorem can be utilized as an interval estimate for the prime omega function, which counts the number of distinct prime divisors. Here, we consider a direct…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Kimihiro Noguchi

Let $\omega(n)$ denote the number of distinct prime factors of a natural number $n$. In 1940, Erd\H{o}s and Kac established that $\omega(n)$ obeys the Gaussian distribution over natural numbers, and in 2004, the third author generalized…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Sourabhashis Das , Wentang Kuo , Yu-Ru Liu

We prove an Erd\H{o}s-Kac type of theorem for the set $S(x,y)=\{n\leq x: p|n \Rightarrow p\leq y \}$. If $\omega (n)$ is the number of prime factors of $n$, we prove that the distribution of $\omega(n)$ for $n \in S(x,y)$ is Gaussian for a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-06 Marzieh Mehdizadeh

Natural numbers can be divided in two non-overlapping infinite sets, primes and composites, with composites factorizing into primes. Despite their apparent simplicity, the elucidation of the architecture of natural numbers with primes as…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-10-21 Guillermo Garcia-Perez , M. Angeles Serrano , Marian Boguna

We investigate the behaviour of a certain additive function depending on prime divisors of specific integers lying in large gaps between consecutive primes. The result is obtained by a combination of results and ideas related to large gaps…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Michael Th. Rassias

Let $x\geqslant 3$. For $1\leqslant n\leqslant x$ an integer, let $\omega(n)$ be its number of distinct prime factors. We show that $\omega(n-1)$ satisfies an Erd\H{o}s-Kac type theorem whenever $\omega(n)=k$ where $1\leqslant k\ll\log\log…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-27 Élie Goudout

The Erdos-Straus conjecture (ESC) concerns the representation of the fraction 4/P, where P is a prime number, as a sum of three positive unit fractions. The focus here is on the case when P is congruent to 1 modulo 4. Two constructive…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-12 E. Dyachenko

The sequence of the primes $p$ for which a variety over $\mathbb{Q}$ has no $p$-adic point plays a fundamental role in arithmetic geometry. This sequence is deterministic, however, we prove that if we choose a typical variety from a family…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-05-18 Efthymios Sofos

Given a variety over $\mathbb{Q}$, we study the distribution of the number of primes dividing the coordinates as we vary an integral point. Under suitable assumptions, we show that this has a multivariate normal distribution. We generalise…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-27 Daniel El-Baz , Daniel Loughran , Efthymios Sofos

Fix a number field $K$. For each nonzero $\alpha \in \mathbb{Z}_K$, let $\nu(\alpha)$ denote the number of distinct, nonassociate irreducible divisors of $\alpha$. We show that $\nu(\alpha)$ is normally distributed with mean proportional to…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-18 Paul Pollack

Let $E_0,\ldots,E_n$ be a partition of the set of prime numbers, and define $E_j(x) := \sum_{p \in E_j \atop p \leq x} \frac{1}{p}$. Define $\pi(x;\mathbf{E},\mathbf{k})$ to be the number of integers $n \leq x$ with $k_j$ prime factors in…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-12-14 Alexander P. Mangerel

The celebrated Erd\H{o}s--Kac theorem says, roughly speaking, that the values of additive functions satisfying certain mild hypotheses are normally distributed. In the intervening years, similar normal distribution laws have been shown to…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Greg Martin , Lee Troupe
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