Powerful numbers in (1^{\ell}+q^{\ell})(2^{\ell}+q^{\ell})\cdots (n^{\ell}+q^{\ell})

Abstract: Let

q

be a positive integer. Recently, Niu and Liu proved that if

n g e m a x q, 1198 - q

, then the product

(1^{3} + q^{3}) (2^{3} + q^{3}) c d o t s (n^{3} + q^{3})

is not a powerful number. In this note, we prove that (i) for any odd prime power

e l l

and

n g e m a x q, 11 - q

, the product

(1^{e l l} + q^{e l l}) (2^{e l l} + q^{e l l}) c d o t s (n^{e l l} + q^{e l l})

is not a powerful number; (2) for any positive odd integer

e l l

, there exists an integer

N_{q, e l l}

such that for any positive integer

n g e N_{q, e l l}

, the product

(1^{e l l} + q^{e l l}) (2^{e l l} + q^{e l l}) c d o t s (n^{e l l} + q^{e l l})

is not a powerful number.

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