Kellner's large-prime-factor conjecture for Bernoulli-polynomial denominators

For a positive integer nn, let sp(n)s_p(n) denote the sum of the base-pp digits of nn, and define

Pn=p prime:sp(n)pp.\mathfrak P_n=\prod_{p\text{ prime}:\,s_p(n)\ge p}p.

Let P(m)P(m) be the largest prime factor of mm. Kellner's conjecture. For n>192n>192,

P(Pn)>n.P(\mathfrak P_n)>\sqrt n.

Equivalently, using Pn+=p>n,sp(n)pp\mathfrak P_n^+=\prod_{p>\sqrt n,\,s_p(n)\ge p}p, one has Pn+>1\mathfrak P_n^+>1 for every n>192n>192. The source states that this is established, apart from the numerical threshold 192192, in a stronger form in its Theorem 2.

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Primary source

Olivier Bordellès, Florian Luca, Pieter Moree and Igor E. Shparlinski, “Denominators of Bernoulli polynomials”, arXiv:1706.09804 (2017).

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