ON THE LARGEST PRIME FACTOR OF THE MERSENNE NUMBERS

DOI10.1017/S0004972709000033zbMATH Open1178.11061OpenAlexW1990905907MaRDI QIDQ3633334FDOQ3633334

Authors Kevin Ford, Florian Luca, Igor E. Shparlinski 

Publication date 18 June 2009

Published in Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.1327

zbMATH Keywords

primesapplications of sieve methodsMersenne numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Distribution of integers with specified multiplicative constraints (11N25) Applications of sieve methods (11N36)

Abstract: Let P(k) be the largest prime factor of the positive integer k. In this paper, we prove that the series $su{m}_{nge1}frac(logn{)}^{a}P(2^n-1)$ is convergent for each constant a<1/2, which gives a more precise form of a result of C. L. Stewart from 1977.

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