{ "id": "1311.5646", "version": "v1", "published": "2013-11-22T03:32:59.000Z", "updated": "2013-11-22T03:32:59.000Z", "title": "On the Products $(1^\\ell+1)(2^\\ell+1)\\cdots (n^\\ell +1)$, II", "authors": [ "Yong-Gao Chen", "Ming-Liang Gong" ], "comment": "13pages", "categories": [ "math.NT" ], "abstract": "In this paper, the following results are proved: (i) For any odd integer $\\ell$ with at most two distinct prime factors and any positive integer $n$, the product $(1^\\ell+1)(2^\\ell+1)\\cdots (n^\\ell +1)$ is not a powerful number; (ii) For any integer $r\\ge 1$, there exists a positive integer $T_r$ such that, if $\\ell$ is a positive odd integer with at most $r$ distinct prime factors and $n$ is an integer with $n\\ge T_r$, then $(1^\\ell+1)(2^\\ell+1)\\cdots (n^\\ell +1)$ is not a powerful number.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2013-11-22T03:32:59.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "11A25" ], "keywords": [ "distinct prime factors", "powerful number", "positive integer", "positive odd integer" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 13, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2013arXiv1311.5646C" } } }