The local distribution of the number of small prime factors: variation of the classical theme

Abstract: We obtain uniform estimates for

N_{k} (x, y)

, the number of positive integers

n

up to

x

for which

o m e g a_{y} (n) = k

, where

o m e g a_{y} (n)

is the number of distinct prime factors of

n

which are

< y

. The motivation for this problem is an observation due to the first author in 2015 that for certain ranges of

y

, the asymptotic behavior of

N_{k} (x, y)

is different from the classical situation concerning

N_{k} (x, x)

studied by Sathe and Selberg. We demonstrate this variation of the classical theme; to estimate

N_{k} (x, y)

we study the sum

S_{z} (x, y) = s u m_{n l e x} z^{o m e g a_{y} (n)}

for

R e (z) > 0

by the Buchstab-de Bruijn method. We also utilize a certain recent result of Tenenbaum to complete our asymptotic analysis.

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