IMC 2013 · Problem 4

Day 220th IMC · Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

Statement

Does there exist an infinite set MM consisting of positive integers such that for any a,bMa, b \in M, with a<ba < b, the sum a+ba + b is square-free?

(A positive integer is called square-free if no perfect square greater than 11 divides it.)

Official solution

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Proposed by Fedor Petrov, St. Petersburg State University.