Z. Yang

An improvement on the largest prime factors of consecutive integers

Let $P^+(n)$ denote the largest prime factor of $n$. One of Erd\H{o}s and Tur\'an's conjectures asserts that the asymptotic density of integers $n$ satisfying $P^+(n)<P^+(n+1)$ is 1/2. In this paper, we prove that this density is larger than 0.280, which improves the previous result 0.2017 by L\"u and Wang (2025). We also prove that there exists a positive density of $n$ such that $P^+(n)<P^+(n+1)<x^{41/107+\varepsilon}$. Define $T_c(x):=\#\{p\leq x:P^+(p-1)\geq p^c\}$. For $1/2<c<1$, we also show that \begin{align*} \mathop{\lim \sup}_{x\rightarrow\infty}\frac{T_c(x)}{\pi(x)}\leq \min\left(-\frac{7}{2}\log c,\frac{1-\delta}{2c}\right), \end{align*} where $\delta=\delta(c)>0$.