Erdős's conjecture on three consecutive powerful numbers

A positive integer is powerful if every prime divisor pp satisfies p2np^2\mid n. For an integer NN, the three consecutive integers are NN, N+1N+1, and N+2N+2. Erdős's conjecture. There is no integer NN such that all three of NN, N+1N+1, and N+2N+2 are powerful.

This folklore conjecture is attributed to Erdős and was later reiterated by Mollin, Walsh, and Granville. It remains unproved, although it follows from the abcabc-conjecture.

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Tsz Ho Chan, “Arithmetic progressions among powerful numbers”, arXiv:2210.00281 (2022).

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