Properties of large prime divisors of numbers of the form p − 1
Authors:
M. A. Cherepnev
Affiliation:
(1) M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Abstract:
The main result of this paper is the fact that the fraction of primes p ≤ x satisfying the condition that p ? 1 has a prime divisor q > exp(ln x/ln ln x) and the number of prime divisors of q ? 1 essentially differ from ln ln(x/n), where n = (p ? 1)/q, tends to zero as x increases.