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On the greatest prime factor of $n^2+1$

On the greatest prime factor of $n^2+1$

There exist infinitely many integers n such that the greatest prime factor of n 2 +1 is at least n 6/5 . The proof is a combination of Hooley's method – for reducing the problem to the evaluation of Kloosterman sums – and the majorization of Kloosterman sums on average …