Problem

Source: IMOC 2020

Tags: IMOC, number theory, prime numbers



$\textbf{N3:}$ For any positive integer $n$, define $rad(n)$ to be the product of all prime divisors of $n$ (without multiplicities), and in particular $rad(1)=1$. Consider an infinite sequence of positive integers $\{a_n\}_{n=1}^{\infty}$ satisfying that \begin{align*} a_{n+1} = a_n + rad(a_n), \: \forall n \in \mathbb{N} \end{align*}Show that there exist positive integers $t,s$ such that $a_t$ is the product of the $s$ smallest primes. Proposed by ltf0501