Large prime factors on short intervals

DOI10.1017/S0305004119000306zbMATH Open1486.11113arXiv1805.05123OpenAlexW2802300069MaRDI QIDQ4958675FDOQ4958675

Authors: Jori Merikoski 

Publication date: 14 September 2021

Published in: Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that for all large enough $x$ the interval $[x,x+x^{1/2}lo{g}^{1.39}x]$ contains numbers with a prime factor $p>x^{18/19}.$ Our work builds on the previous works of Heath-Brown and Jia (1998) and Jia and Liu (2000) concerning the same problem for the longer intervals $[x,x+x^{1/2+epsilon}].$ We also incorporate some ideas from Harman's book `Prime-detecting sieves' (2007). The main new ingredient that we use is the iterative argument of Matom"aki and Radziwi{l}{l}(2016) for bounding Dirichlet polynomial mean values, which is applied to obtain Type II information. This allows us to take shorter intervals than in the above-mentioned previous works. We have also had to develop ideas to avoid losing any powers of $logx$ when applying Harman's sieve method.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05123

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largest prime factors on short intervals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Distribution of primes (11N05)

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