## Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics

### A refinement of the function $g(x)$ on Grimm's conjecture

Shaohua Zhang

#### Article information

Source
Rocky Mountain J. Math., Volume 43, Number 1 (2013), 385-394.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 3 June 2013

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rmjm/1370267196

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1216/RMJ-2013-43-1-385

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3065472

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1357.11010

#### Citation

Zhang, Shaohua. A refinement of the function $g(x)$ on Grimm's conjecture. Rocky Mountain J. Math. 43 (2013), no. 1, 385--394. doi:10.1216/RMJ-2013-43-1-385. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rmjm/1370267196

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