The squarefree-values conjecture for polynomials

Let f(x)Z[x]f(x)\in\mathbb{Z}[x] have no multiple roots in C\mathbb{C}. Let BB be the largest integer dividing f(n)f(n) for every integer nn, and let BB' be the smallest divisor of BB such that B/BB/B' is squarefree.

Squarefree-values conjecture. Then f(n)/Bf(n)/B' is squarefree for infinitely many values of nn.

This is a folklore conjecture on squarefree values of polynomial sequences. The source states that it is known when degf3\deg f\leq 3 by Hooley and that it follows from the abc conjecture; it is used to improve the paper's class-number result.

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Giacomo Cherubini, Alessandro Fazzari, Andrew Granville, Vítězslav Kala and Pavlo Yatsyna, “Consecutive real quadratic fields with large class numbers”, arXiv:2111.11549 (2021).

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