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Erdős problem 535

Let r≥3r \geq 3, and let fr(N)f_r(N) denote the size of the largest subset of {1,…,N}\{1,\ldots,N\} such that no subset of size rr has the same pairwise greatest common divisor between all elements. Erdős [Er64] proved that f3(N)>Nc/log⁡log⁡Nf_3(N) > N^{c/\log\log N} for some constant c>0c > 0, and conjectured this should also be an upper bound; here we state the conjectural upper bound for all r≥3r \geq 3.

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Abbott and Hanson [AbHa70] improved Erdős's upper bound to fr(N)≤N1/2+o(1)f_r(N) \leq N^{1/2+o(1)} for all r≥3r \geq 3.

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∀ {r : ℕ}, 3 ≤ r → ∀ ε > 0, ∀ᶠ (N : ℕ) in Filter.atTop, ↑(Erdos535.f r N) ≤ ↑N ^ (1 / 2 + ε)
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