Almost Perfect Powers in Products of Consecutive Integers

• Autores: Kálmán Györy, Akos Pintér
• Localización: Monatshefte für mathematik, ISSN 0026-9255, Vol. 145, Nº 1, 2005, págs. 19-33
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1007/s00605-004-0278-8
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• Resumen

  • The classical equations (1) and (3) have a very extensive literature. The main purpose of recent investigations is to solve these equations with as large bound for the greatest prime factor P(b) of b as possible. General elementary methods have been developed for studying (1) and (3) which, however, cannot be applied if k is small. As a generalization of previous results obtained for small values of k, we completely solve Eq. (1) for k 5, under the assumption that P(b) pk, the k-th prime (cf. Theorem 1). A similar result is established for Eq. (3) (cf. Theorem 2). In our proofs, several deep results and powerful techniques are combined from modern Diophantine analysis.