A remark on Chen’s theorem (II)

Abstract

Let p denote a prime and P ₂ denote an almost prime with at most two prime factors. The author proves that for sufficiently large x, where the constant 1.13 constitutes an improvement of the previous result 1.104 due to J. Wu.

Keywords

Chen’s theorem / Sieve / Mean value theorem

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