TITLE: Is new $n$-conjecture as follows correct?
QUESTION [9 upvotes]: Given a positive integer $P>1$, let its prime factorization be written as$$P=p_1^{a_1}p_2^{a_2}p_3^{a_3}\cdots p_k^{a_k}.$$
Define the functions $h(P)$ by $h(1)=1$ and $h(P)=\min(a_1, a_2,\ldots,a_k).$
Is new the $n$-conjecture, formulated as follows, correct?
Conjecture: if ${P_1,P_2,...,P_n}$ are positive integer and pairwise coprime, then,
$$\min\{h(P_1), h(P_2),...,h(P_n), h(P_1+P_2+...+P_n)\} \leq n+1.$$
I proposed the case $n=2$ two years ago here (Is the conjecture A+B=C following correct?). Now I reformulate that question as follows:

Let ${P_1,P_2}$ are coprime, then:
$$\min\{h(P_1), h(P_2), h(P_1+P_2)\} \leq 3$$

REPLY [9 votes]: Such attempted generalizations of ABC to four or more variables
often fail to specializations of the identity
$$
(x^2+xy-y^2)^3 + (x^2-xy-y^2)^3 = 2 (x^6 - y^6).
\label{1}\tag{*}
$$
One can use elliptic curves to make both  $x^2 + xy - y^2$ and $x^2 - xy - y^2$
"powerful" (of the form $A^2 B^3$), which makes each of the four terms
$(x^2+xy-y^2)^3$, $(x^2-xy-y^2)^3$, $2x^6$, $2y^6$ have $h=6$
but for a stray factor of $2$ which should not matter in the context of
the ABC conjecture.  For example, the pairwise prime numbers
$a,b,c,d$ below satisfy $2a^6 + b^6 + 61^9 c^6 = 2d^6$.
Here $d$ is even but $a$ is odd, so $2a^6$ has a "stray factor of $2$",
and the expansion to $a^6 + a^6 + b^6 + 61^9 c^6 = 2d^6$ loses
pairwise coprimality; so either way we don't quite get a counterexample.
Still, this suggests that generalizations of ABC to four or more variables
can run afoul of identities such as \eqref{1}.
(It is "well known" that the Mason-Stothers theorem forbids the disproof
of ABC itself by such an identity.)
a = 1022288301691921314835532892967014277786302791344455107816139963763145069687359424810667270039489345929029301393007247303344511065237 
b = 4005821025365458069945118311017282675402206671149976403498624129498574702167905733126870212117037684063261425637225699359421949547271 
c =   10621830276852061412855232703108032231130723932854745057900981539571749281974534306702514113168069346943754838515856358759614674721
d = 4676830625123658957500070687744472849236478810555581279857582626862200039312130562436302012081022720213179152015505627679021327325170