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Integers free of large prime factors and the Riemann hypothesis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Adolf Hildebrand
Adolf Hildebrand
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Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, 1409, West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801, U.S.A.
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For x, y ≥ 1, let Ψ(x, y) denote the number of positive integers less than or equal to x and free of prime factors greater than y. The behaviour of the function Ψ(x, y) has been the object of numerous articles (see e.g. Norton's memoir [5] and the bibliography there). It turns out that a good approximation to ψ(x, y)/x is given by ρ(log x/log y), where the function ρ(t) is defined for t ≥ 0 as the continuous solution of the equations

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Mathematika , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , December 1984 , pp. 258 - 271
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Copyright © University College London 1984

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