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Let and be sufficiently large. If has then must there exist and distinct primes such that
Source: erdosproblems.com/537
An accepted solution exists. The statement is false.
The site's label is DISPROVED (LEAN). The status-defining source is Erdős's 1973 survey, printed p. 124, which reports a construction of I. Ruzsa: the squarefree integers whose prime factors satisfy have positive density, and for their intersection with the equation has at most two solutions for every . The site's commentary reproduces the two-line argument, checked here. The standing derives from the claim page Ruzsa's construction, accepted on the site's acceptance of the construction (the 1973 chapter is a contribution to an edited proceedings volume whose refereeing no record found documents, so it is the source and not acceptance evidence), so the problem is solved, disproved; the external Lean formalization inspected statically at a pinned revision (below) is recorded on the claim page and is not acceptance evidence. No dispute was found. The (LEAN) suffix is a catalog label; nothing was built or kernel-checked here.