Partial factorizations of products of binomial coefficients

Abstract

Let [Formula: see text] the product of the elements of the [Formula: see text]th row of Pascal’s triangle. This paper studies the partial factorizations of [Formula: see text] given by the product [Formula: see text] of all prime factors [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] having [Formula: see text], counted with multiplicity. It shows [Formula: see text] as [Formula: see text] for a limit function [Formula: see text] defined for [Formula: see text]. The main results are deduced from study of functions [Formula: see text] that encode statistics of the base [Formula: see text] radix expansions of the integer [Formula: see text] (and smaller integers), where the base [Formula: see text] ranges over primes [Formula: see text]. Asymptotics of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] are derived using the prime number theorem with remainder term or conditionally on the Riemann hypothesis.