Arithmetic properties of the Ramanujan function

DOI10.1007/BF02829735MaRDI QIDQ2493459zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Florian Luca, Igor E. Shparlinski

Publication date 14 June 2006

Published in Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences. Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0607591

zbMATH Keywords

applications of \(S\)-unit equationslinear forms in \(q\)-adic logarithmsLucas sequenceRamanujan \(\tau\)-function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rate of growth of arithmetic functions (11N56)

Abstract: We study some arithmetic properties of the Ramanujan function $au(n)$, such as the largest prime divisor $P(au(n))$ and the number of distinct prime divisors $omega(au(n))$ of $au(n)$ for various sequences of $n$. In particular, we show that hbox{$P(au(n))geq(logn{)}^{33/31+o(1)}$} for infinitely many $n$, and �egin{equation*} P( au(p) au(p^2) au(p^3)) > (1+o(1))frac{loglog plogloglog p} {loglogloglog p} end{equation*} for every prime $p$ with hbox{$au(p)eq0$}.

Review text

Let \(\tau(n)\) denote the Ramanujan function, \(P(n)\) the largest prime factor of \(n> 1\) and \(\omega(n)\) the number of distinct primes dividing \(n\). The authors investigate \(P(\tau(n))\) and \(\omega(\tau(n))\) when \(\tau(n)\neq 0\), with the aim of finding lower bounds for certain sequences. In section 1, well known properties of \(\tau(n)\) are given and previously known results are described; it is noted that the integers \(u_r= \tau(2^r)\) form a Lucas sequence. Theorem 1 establishes that \(P(\tau(n))\geq(\log n)^{{33\over 31}+o(1)}\) for infinitely many \(n\) with \(\tau(n)\neq 0\). The paper continues by determining lower bounds for \(\omega(\prod_{\substack{ p< x^{1/2}\\ \tau(p)\neq 0}} \tau(p) \tau(p^2) \tau(p^3))\) as \(x\to\infty\) and \(P(\tau(p) \tau(p^2) \tau(p^3))\) for primes \(p\to\infty\) with \(\tau(p)\neq 0\). The proofs use known results on bounds for smooth numbers, on \(S\)-unit equations and on bounds on linear forms in \(q\)-adic logarithms. (The reviewer noted a misprint in the second inequality after (7), where \(t\) on the right should be replaced by \(l\).) The final result establishes that there are only finitely many pairs \((m,n)\) of positive integers such that \(|\tau(m!)|= n!\).

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