Kellner's asymptotic conjecture for large prime factors of Bernoulli-polynomial denominators

For a positive integer nn, define

Pn+=p>n,sp(n)pp,\mathfrak P_n^+=\prod_{p>\sqrt n,\,s_p(n)\ge p}p,

where sp(n)s_p(n) is the sum of the base-pp digits of nn. Let ω(m)\omega(m) denote the number of distinct prime factors of mm. Kellner's conjecture. There is an absolute constant κ>0\kappa>0 such that, as nn\to\infty,

ω(Pn+)=(κ+o(1))nlogn.\omega(\mathfrak P_n^+)=(\kappa+o(1))\frac{\sqrt n}{\log n}.

This predicts the precise order of growth of the number of large prime factors occurring in the denominator of the Bernoulli polynomial. The source gives no resolution of this asymptotic conjecture.

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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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