On prime numbers in an arithmetic progression with a prime-power difference
It is shown that Dickson’s Conjecture about primes in linear polynomials implies that if f is a reducible quadratic polynomial with integral coefficients and non-zero discriminant then for every r there exists an integer such that the polynomial represents at least r distinct primes.
We study the behavior of the arithmetic functions defined byF(n) = P+(n) / P-(n+1) and G(n) = P+(n+1) / P-(n) (n ≥ 1)where P+(k) and P-(k) denote the largest and the smallest prime factors, respectively, of the positive integer k.