Almost prime

Demonstration, with Cuisenaire rods, of the 2-almost prime nature of the number 6

In number theory, a natural number is called almost prime if there exists an absolute constant K such that the number has at most K prime factors.^[1]^[2] An almost prime n is denoted by P_r if and only if the number of prime factors of n, counted according to multiplicity, is at most r.^[3] A natural number is called k-almost prime if it has exactly k prime factors, counted with multiplicity. More formally, a number n is k-almost prime if and only if Ω(n) = k, where Ω(n) is the total number of primes in the prime factorization of n:

Omega (n):=sum a_{i}qquad {mbox{if}}qquad n=prod p_{i}^{a_{i}}.

A natural number is thus prime if and only if it is 1-almost prime, and semiprime if and only if it is 2-almost prime. The set of k-almost primes is usually denoted by P_k. The smallest k-almost prime is 2^k. The first few k-almost primes are:

k	k-almost primes	OEIS sequence
1	2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, …	A000040
2	4, 6, 9, 10, 14, 15, 21, 22, …	A001358
3	8, 12, 18, 20, 27, 28, 30, …	A014612
4	16, 24, 36, 40, 54, 56, 60, …	A014613
5	32, 48, 72, 80, 108, 112, …	A014614
6	64, 96, 144, 160, 216, 224, …	A046306
7	128, 192, 288, 320, 432, 448, …	A046308
8	256, 384, 576, 640, 864, 896, …	A046310
9	512, 768, 1152, 1280, 1728, …	A046312
10	1024, 1536, 2304, 2560, …	A046314
11	2048, 3072, 4608, 5120, …	A069272
12	4096, 6144, 9216, 10240, …	A069273
13	8192, 12288, 18432, 20480, …	A069274
14	16384, 24576, 36864, 40960, …	A069275
15	32768, 49152, 73728, 81920, …	A069276
16	65536, 98304, 147456, …	A069277
17	131072, 196608, 294912, …	A069278
18	262144, 393216, 589824, …	A069279
19	524288, 786432, 1179648, …	A069280
20	1048576, 1572864, 2359296, …	A069281

The number π_k(n) of positive integers less than or equal to n with at most k prime divisors (not necessarily distinct) is asymptotic to:^[4]

pi _{k}(n)sim left({frac {n}{log n}}right){frac {(log log n)^{k-1}}{(k-1)!}},

a result of Landau. See also the Hardy–Ramanujan theorem.

References[edit]

^ Sándor, József; Dragoslav, Mitrinović S.; Crstici, Borislav (2006). Handbook of Number Theory I. Springer. p. 316. ISBN 978-1-4020-4215-7..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}

^ Rényi, Alfréd A. (1948). "On the representation of an even number as the sum of a single prime and single almost-prime number". Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Matematicheskaya (in Russian). 12 (1): 57–78.

^ Heath-Brown, D. R. (May 1978). "Almost-primes in arithmetic progressions and short intervals". Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 83 (3): 357–375. doi:10.1017/S0305004100054657.

^ Tenenbaum, Gerald (1995). Introduction to Analytic and Probabilistic Number Theory. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-41261-7.

External links[edit]

Weisstein, Eric W. "Almost prime". MathWorld.

[1] Sándor, József; Dragoslav, Mitrinović S.; Crstici, Borislav (2006). Handbook of Number Theory I. Springer. p. 316. ISBN 978-1-4020-4215-7..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}

[2] Rényi, Alfréd A. (1948). "On the representation of an even number as the sum of a single prime and single almost-prime number". Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Matematicheskaya (in Russian). 12 (1): 57–78.

[3] Heath-Brown, D. R. (May 1978). "Almost-primes in arithmetic progressions and short intervals". Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 83 (3): 357–375. doi:10.1017/S0305004100054657.

[4] Tenenbaum, Gerald (1995). Introduction to Analytic and Probabilistic Number Theory. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-41261-7.

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