A note on three consecutive powerful numbers

MaRDI QIDQ6941723zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Tsz Ho Chan

Publication date 19 August 2025

Published in Integers (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://math.colgate.edu/~integers/z7/z7.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

consecutive powerful numberselliptic curvesPell equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factorization; primality (11A51) Quadratic and bilinear Diophantine equations (11D09) Elliptic curves over global fields (11G05)

Review text

The paper concerns the conjecture of P. Erdős, R. A. Mollin and P. Walsh stating that there do not exist three consecutive powerful numbers. The author studies a variant of this problem and proves that there are no three consecutive powerful numbers such that the middle term is a perfect cube and each of the other two has only one prime factor occurring to an odd power. The proof combines elementary number-theoretic arguments with the theory of Pell-type equations and elliptic curves.\N\NThe article is clearly written and provides a natural invitation to further investigations on powerful numbers and related Diophantine problems.

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