Niven's constant

Niven's constant

In number theory, Niven's constant, named after Ivan Niven, is the largest exponent appearing in the prime factorization of any natural number n "on average". More precisely, if we define H(1) = 1 and H(n) = the largest exponent appearing in the unique prime factorization of a natural number n > 1, then Niven's constant is given by


\lim_{n \to \infty} \frac{1}{n} \sum_{j=1}^n H(j) = 1+\sum_{k=2}^\infty \left(1-\frac{1}{\zeta(k)}\right) 
= 1.705211\dots \,

where ζ(k) is the value of the Riemann zeta function at the point k (Niven, 1969).

In the same paper Niven also proved that


\sum_{j=1}^n h(j) = n + c\sqrt{n} + o (\sqrt{n}) \,

where h(1) = 1, h(n) = the smallest exponent appearing in the unique prime factorization of each natural number n > 1, o is little o notation, and the constant c is given by


c = \frac{\zeta(\frac{3}{2})}{\zeta(3)}, \,

and consequently that

 \lim_{n\to\infty} \frac{1}{n}\sum_{j=1}^n h(j) = 1.

References

  • Niven, Ivan M. (August 1969). "Averages of Exponents in Factoring Integers". Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 22 (2): 356–360. doi:10.2307/2037055. JSTOR 2037055. 
  • Steven R. Finch, Mathematical Constants (Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications), Cambridge University Press, 2003

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