Remarks on exponential congruences and powerful numbers

DOI10.1016/0022-314X(88)90104-7MaRDI QIDQ1106255zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Paulo Ribenboim

Publication date 1988

Published in Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-314X(88)90104-7

zbMATH Keywords

consecutive powerful numbersexponential congruencesFermat's last theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Higher degree equations; Fermat's equation (11D41) Distribution of integers with specified multiplicative constraints (11N25)

Review text

This paper considers a number of questions relating the solvability of such congruences as \(a^{p-1}\equiv 1 \pmod{p^2}\) to properties of powerful numbers. In particular, various deductions from, and partial results towards, the conjecture of Erdős, that there do not exist 3 consecutive powerful numbers, are given. In conclusion it is asked, among other things, whether \(m^4-1\) fails to be powerful for ``almost all even \(m\). It seems to the reviewer that much more can be proved, by a simple sieve argument. Namely, if \(f(n)\) is an integer polynomial, not identically powerful as a polynomial, then \(f(n)\) fails to be powerful for ``almost all \(n\).

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