The largest prime factor of X3+2
The largest prime factor of X3+2
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X3 2 的最大素因数
DOI:
10.1112/plms/82.3.554
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发表时间:
2001
影响因子:
1.8
通讯作者:
D. R. Heath
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作者:
D. R. Heath
The largest prime factor of X3+2 was investigated in 1978 by Hooley, who gave a conditional proo that it is infinitely often at least as large as X1+δ, with a certain positive constant δ. It is trivial to obtain such a result with δ=0. One may think of Hooley's result as an approximation to the conjecture that X3+2 is infinitely often prime. The condition required by Hooley, his R* conjecture, gives a non‐trivial bound for short Ramanujan–Kloosterman sums. The present paper gives an unconditional proof that the largest prime factor of X3+2 is infinitely often at least as large as X1+δ, though with a much smaller constant than that obtained by Hooley. In order to do this we prove a non‐trivial bound for short Ramanujan–Kloosterman sums with smooth modulus. It is also necessary to modify the Chebychev method, as used by Hooley, so as to ensure that the sums that occur do indeed have a sufficiently smooth modulus. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 11N32.