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Since the publication, in 1975, of a famous result by Erd\u0151s and Selfridge, which says that the product of consecutive positive integers is never a perfect power, a rather extensive research around this and similar equations has been done and a number of very interesting relevant papers has been published.  Let us denote by \\(P(x)\\) the greatest prime divisor of the integer \\(x\\) and by \\(p_k\\) the \\(k\\)-th prime.   The first main result of the paper (Theorem 1) is the following: Under the restrictions \\(P(b)\\leq p_k\\) and (only for the case \\(k=2\\)) \\(n>2\\), equation (1) can have solutions only in the following cases: (i) \\(k=2\\) and \\(m\\in\\{1,2,3,8\\}\\), (ii) \\(k=3\\) and \\(m\\in\\{1,2,3,4,8\\}\\), (iii) \\(k=4\\) and \\(m\\in\\{1,\\ldots, 7\\}\\), (iv) \\(k=5\\) and \\(m\\in\\{1,\\ldots, 8\\}\\).  A second main object of the paper is the study of the equation (below the reviewer somewhat modifies the authors' notation)  \\[  m(m+d_1)\\cdots (m+d_{k-2})=by^n\\tag{2,} \\]  where \\(k\\geq 3\\), in the posititve integer unknowns \\(m,b\\), \\(d_1<\\cdots <d_{k-2}\\) and \\(n\\geq 2\\) (with \\(n>2\\) when \\(k=3\\)). If \\(k\\in\\{3,4,5\\}\\), then Theorem 2 gives explicitly in a table all cases for which equation (2) is possible under the restrictions \\(d_{k-2}\\leq k-1\\) and \\(P(b)\\leq p_{k-1}\\). For example, when \\(k=4\\), equation (2) is possible only with \\((d_1,d_2)=(1,3)\\) and \\(m\\in\\{1,2,3,5,9,15,24\\}\\).  For the proof of Theorem 2 the authors need to prove Theorem 3 which reads as follows: Let \\(n\\) be equal to 4 or to an odd prime. Then the equation \\(m(m+3)=2^{\\alpha}3^{\\beta}y^n\\) in integers \\(m,y\\geq 1\\) and \\(\\alpha,\\beta\\geq 0\\) is possible only for \\(m=1,3,6,9,24\\), except possibly if \\(n\\in I=\\{19,23,29,31,37,41,43,47,73\\}\\) in which case further values of \\(m\\), with \\(m\\equiv 1,5\\pmod{6}\\) and \\(\\alpha=1,\\beta=0\\), cannot be excluded (but no such solutions are known).  Theorem 3 is, in turn, based on the following Theorem 4 which the authors also prove: Let \\(n\\) be equal to 4 or to an odd prime not belonging to the set \\(I\\) (see above). Then, solutions \\((x,y)\\) to the Diophantine equation \\(x^n-2y^n=\\pm 3\\), distinct from \\(\\pm (-1,1)\\), exist only when \\(n=3\\), in which case there is one further solution, namely \\((x,y)=\\pm (5,4)\\).  For the proof of Theorem 4 a crucial role is played by a sharp lower bound for homogeneous linear forms in two logarithms of algebraic numbers, due to M.~Laurent, M.~Mignotte and Y.~Nesterenko, as well as a lower bound of M.~Bennett for the distance of \\((a/b)^{1/n}\\) from the nearest rational number (under certain restrictions on the integers \\(a,b\\) and \\(n\\)).  For the proof of Theorem 3 several lemmas from the literature are used. It is worth noticing, for example, that the authors use the following result: If \\(n\\geq 7\\) is a prime number and \\(\\alpha\\) is an integer \\(\\geq 2\\) then the equation \\(x^n+2^{\\alpha}y^n=3z^2\\) has no solution in non-zero coprime integers \\(x,y,z\\). This is contained in a more general recent (2004) result by \\textit{M. A. Bennett} and \\textit{C. Skinner} [Can. J. Math. 56, No. 1, 23--54 (2004;  Zbl 1053.11025)], for the proof of which Galois representations and modular forms are used.  For the proofs of Theorems 1 and 2 the authors again combine various existing results, the most impressive of which being, probably, \\textit{J. M.~Gandhi} 's [J. Reine Angew. Math. 256, 163--167 (1972;  Zbl 0248.10018)] sufficient condition for non-existence of non-zero solutions to equations \\(x^n+y^n=cz^n\\) with \\(n\\) prime and \\(n|z\\).   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