Problem

Source: Malaysian SST 2024 P7

Tags: number theory



Let $P$ be the set of all primes. Given any positive integer $n$, define $$\displaystyle f(n) = \max_{p \in P}v_p(n)$$Prove that for any positive integer $k\ge 2$, there exists infinitely many positive integers $m$ such that \[ f(m+1) = f(m+2) = \cdots = f(m+k) \] Proposed by Ivan Chan Guan Yu