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sequence of positive integers

Source: Indonesia IMO 2007 TST, Stage 2, Test 1, Problem 3

November 15, 2009
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Problem Statement

Let a1,a2,a3, a_1,a_2,a_3,\dots be infinite sequence of positive integers satisfying the following conditon: for each prime number p p, there are only finite number of positive integers i i such that pai p|a_i. Prove that that sequence contains a sub-sequence ai1,ai2,ai3, a_{i_1},a_{i_2},a_{i_3},\dots, with 1i1<i2<i3< 1 \le i_1<i_2<i_3<\dots, such that for each mn m \ne n, \gcd(a_{i_m},a_{i_n})\equal{}1.