Subsets of an interval whose product is a power (Q1301641)

A well known result of Erdős and Selfridge states that the product of consecutive integers is never a non-trivial power. In the present paper the authors investigate related questions. They prove it can be chosen a subset of a short interval \([n,n+x_n]\) including \(n\) such that the product of elements of the subset is a square. They give upper bounds for \(x_n\). Some related questions are also discussed and many conjectures are stated.