On Erdös-Woods Conjecture

Yerzhan Baisalov (yerzhan_baisal@hotmail.com)
Kazakh National University (Kazakhstan)

A pair of sequences of positive integers a, a+1,..., a+k and b, b+1,...,b+k is called Erdös-Woods pair if for each i less or equal to k, the integers a+i and b+i have the same prime factors; in this case we say also that the pair have a depth k.

Our talk is devoted to the following statement knonwn as Erdös-Woods Conjecture: for some positive integer k, there is no any Erdös-Woods pair of depth k. Woods noticed that this purely number-theoretic conjecture is closely related to some questions of the formal arithmetics and its fragments.