## On the greatest prime factor of $$(ab+1)(ac+1)$$.(English)Zbl 1077.11052

The method introduced by the authors in [Indag. Math. 9, 317–332 (1998; Zbl 0923.11103)] (which applies the subspace theorem) is used to prove that the greatest prime factor of $$(ab+1)(ac+1)$$ tends to infinity with $$a$$. This solves a long standing open problem for which earlier partial results and conjectures were obtained e.g. by K. Győry, A. Sárközy and C. L. Stewart [Acta Arith. 74, 365–385 (1996; Zbl 0857.11047)].

### MSC:

 11J25 Diophantine inequalities

### Keywords:

greatest prime factor; diophantine inequalities

### Citations:

Zbl 0923.11103; Zbl 0857.11047
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