De Koninck–Doyon conjecture on orderings of largest prime factors

Fix an arbitrary integer k2k\geq 2, and let a1,a2,,aka_1,a_2,\ldots,a_k be any permutation of 0,1,,k10,1,\ldots,k-1. Let P+(m)P^+(m) denote the largest prime factor of mm. De Koninck–Doyon conjecture. As xx tends to infinity,

#{nx:P+(n+a1)<P+(n+a2)<<P+(n+ak)}1k!x.\#\{n\leq x:P^+(n+a_1)<P^+(n+a_2)<\cdots<P^+(n+a_k)\}\sim\frac{1}{k!}x.

This generalizes the Erdős–Turán ordering conjecture from two consecutive integers to every ordering of kk consecutive integers. The supplied text does not report a resolution, so the conjecture remains open here.

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Primary source

Zhiyuan Yang, “An improvement on the largest prime factors of consecutive integers”, arXiv:2607.16032 (2026).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1710.01195.

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