Products of consecutive integers with unusual anatomy
Number Theory
2026-04-23 v2
Abstract
Call an interval of consecutive natural numbers \emph{bad} if the product is divisible by the square of its largest prime factor; \emph{very bad} if this product is powerful, and \emph{type } if it has the same squarefree component as a factorial. Such concepts arose in the analysis of the factorial equation with . Answering several questions of Erd\H{o}s and Graham, we obtain asymptotics for the number of integers contained in bad or very bad intervals, and to get near-asymptotics for the number of right endpoints of a type interval, or on the number of solutions to .
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@article{arxiv.2603.27990,
title = {Products of consecutive integers with unusual anatomy},
author = {Terence Tao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.27990},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
41 pages, 5 figures. More figures, expanded remarks