A conjecture of Erdös on 3-powerful numbers
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Abstract:
Erdös conjectured that the Diophantine equation $x+y=z$ has infinitely many solutions in pairwise coprime 3-powerful integers, i.e., positive integers $n$ for which $p\mid n$ implies $p^3\mid n$. This was recently proved by Nitaj who, however, was unable to verify the further conjecture that this could be done infinitely often with integers $x$, $y$ and $z$ none of which is a perfect cube. This is now demonstrated.References
- P. Erdös, Problems and results on consecutive integers, Eureka 38 (1975–76), 3–8.
- L. J. Mordell, Diophantine equations, Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 30, Academic Press, London-New York, 1969. MR 0249355
- Abderrahmane Nitaj, On a conjecture of Erdős on $3$-powerful numbers, Bull. London Math. Soc. 27 (1995), no. 4, 317–318. MR 1335280, DOI 10.1112/blms/27.4.317
Additional Information
- J. H. E. Cohn
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, United Kingdom
- Email: J.Cohn@rhbnc.ac.uk
- Received by editor(s): May 15, 1996
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: September 13, 1996
- © Copyright 1998 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Math. Comp. 67 (1998), 439-440
- MSC (1991): Primary 11P05
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-98-00881-3
- MathSciNet review: 1432127