Some Remarks on Prime Factors of Integers

Abstract

Let 1 < a1 < a2 < … be a sequence of integers and let N(x) denote the number of a's not exceeding x. If N(x)/x tends to a limit as x tends to infinity we say that the a's have a density. Often one calls it the asymptotic density to distinguish it from the Schnirelmann or arithmetical density. The statement that almost all integers have a certain property will mean that the integers which do not have this property have density 0. Throughout this paper p, q, r will denote primes.I conjectured for a long time that, if e > 0 is any given number, then almost all integers n have two divisors d1 and d2 satisfying1