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Generalisation of this circular arrangement of numbers from $1$ to $32$ with two adjacent numbers being perfect squares

I posted this question on MSE, and failed to get the type of answer I wanted. That's why I would like to post it here and wait for the experts to reply. Here's the link to the MSE post, which I ...
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Is there a permutation $\pi\in S_n$ with $\sum\limits_{0<k<n}\frac1{\pi(k)^2-\pi(k+1)^2}=0$ for each $n>7$?

Let $S_n$ be the symmetric group of all permutations of $\{1,\ldots,n\}$. QUESTION: Is it true that for each $n=8,9,\ldots$ we have $$\sum_{0<k<n}\frac1{\pi(k)^2-\pi(k+1)^2}=0\tag{$*$}$$ for ...
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Hamiltonian path in divisibility graph

Let $\mathbb{N}$ denote the set of positive integers, and consider the graph $(\mathbb{N}, E)$ where a set $\{a,b\}$ of two distinct positive integers belongs to $E$ if there is an integer $k>1$ ...
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