Large prime factors on short intervals

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Abstract: We show that for all large enough x the interval [x,x+x1/2log1.39x] contains numbers with a prime factor p>x18/19. 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+x1/2+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.










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