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On the product of consecutive elements of an arithmetic progression. (English) Zbl 0582.10011
P. Erdős and J. L. Selfridge [Ill. J. Math. 19, 292-301 (1975; Zbl 0295.10017)] proved that the product of $$k\geq 2$$ consecutive integers cannot be a proper power and asked for an analogous result concerning the product of consecutive integers of an arithmetic progression. Using the method of the above-mentioned paper, the author proves that the product $$(n+d)(n+2d)\cdot \cdot \cdot (n+kd)$$ cannot be a proper power provided k is sufficiently large; in fact, for all cases, the largest k is $\leq \quad \max \{3\cdot 10^ 4, (3/2) \exp [d(d+2)(d+1)^{1/3}]\}.$
Reviewer: E.L.Cohen

##### MSC:
 11D41 Higher degree equations; Fermat’s equation 11B25 Arithmetic progressions
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