{"family": "012", "title": "Independent largest prime factors of consecutive integers", "claim": "Independent largest prime factors of consecutive integers. Resolves the Erdős–Pomerance joint Dickman conjecture: the logarithmic sizes of the largest prime factors of n and $`n+1`$ are asymptotically independent in ordinary natural density. In particular, the integers satisfying $`P^+(n)\\lt P^+(n+1)`$ have density 1/2.", "abstracts": ["Let $P^+(n)$ denote the largest prime factor of $n$. We prove that $\\log P^+(n)/\\log n$ and $\\log P^+(n+1)/\\log n$ are asymptotically independent in ordinary natural density, with Dickman marginals. This resolves the Erd\\H{o}s--Pomerance joint Dickman conjecture positively and implies that the ordering $P^+(n)