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On shifted primes with large prime factors and their products

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In this short note, we give partial answers to two questions on shifted primes with large prime factors, posed by Luca et al. (Bull Belg Math Soc Simon Stevin 22:39–47, 2015) and by Chen and Chen (Acta Math Sin (Engl Ser) 33(3):377–382, 2017), respectively.

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This work is supported in part by Scientific Research Innovation Team Project Affiliated to Yangtze Normal University (No. 2016XJD01).

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Wu, J. On shifted primes with large prime factors and their products. Arch. Math. 112, 387–393 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00013-018-1272-z

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