TY - JOUR
T1 - On the largest prime factor of the mersenne numbers
AU - Ford, Kevin
AU - Luca, Florian
AU - Shparlinski, Igor E.
N1 - Copyright 2009 Cambridge University Press. Article originally published in Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, Vol. 79 No. 3, pp 455-463. The original article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0004972709000033
PY - 2009/6
Y1 - 2009/6
N2 - Let P(k) be the largest prime factor of the positive integer k. In this paper, we prove that the series ∑n≥1 (log n)α /{P(2 n-1) is convergent for each constant <1/2, which gives a more precise form of a result of C. L.Stewart [On divisors of Fermat, Fibonacci, Lucas and Lehmer numbers, Proc. London Math. Soc. 35(3) (1977), 425-447].
AB - Let P(k) be the largest prime factor of the positive integer k. In this paper, we prove that the series ∑n≥1 (log n)α /{P(2 n-1) is convergent for each constant <1/2, which gives a more precise form of a result of C. L.Stewart [On divisors of Fermat, Fibonacci, Lucas and Lehmer numbers, Proc. London Math. Soc. 35(3) (1977), 425-447].
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U2 - 10.1017/S0004972709000033
DO - 10.1017/S0004972709000033
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77957225012
VL - 79
SP - 455
EP - 463
JO - Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society
JF - Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society
SN - 0004-9727
IS - 3
ER -