The Largest Prime Divisor of the Maximal Order of an Element of S_n

We define g(n) (Landau's Function) to be the maximal order of an element of the symmetric group on n elements. Results about the prime factorization of g(n) allow a reduction of the upper bound on the largest prime divisor of g(n) to 1.328*sqrt(n*log(n)).

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