Arithmetic properties of the Ramanujan function

Abstract

We study some arithmetic properties of the Ramanujan function $τ(n)$, such as the largest prime divisor $P(τ(n))$ and the number of distinct prime divisors $ω(τ(n))$ of $τ(n)$ for various sequences of $n$. In particular, we show that \hbox{$P(τ(n)) \geq (\log n)^{33/31 + o(1)}$} for infinitely many $n$, and \begin{equation*} P(τ(p)τ(p^2)τ(p^3)) > (1+o(1))\frac{\log\log p\log\log\log p} {\log\log\log\log p} \end{equation*} for every prime $p$ with \hbox{$τ(p)\neq 0$}.

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