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I'm curious about if the following question is in the literature or what work can be done about it. Denote the number of distinct primes dividing an odd perfect number $N$ with the arithmetic function ...

Briefly, Question: Is it "good enough" to use least prime factor in choosing a maximal set of coprime integers in an interval? The post title comes from a 1993 paper of Erdos and Sarkozy. They ...

Edit 2018.08.08 This answer https://mathoverflow.net/a/307881 will be updated to give recent information about S, especially a forthcoming preprint. End Edit 2018.08.08 In an introductory post on ...

I am hoping for explicit numerical estimates like the following sample (with made up numbers, though it might be true): for every $n \gt 10^6$ and every $b$ with $b^2 \lt n \lt b^3$, the number of ...