Even more surprising conjecture

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Conjecture about the totient function

$\varphi(n)$ is again the totienr function.

If $\ m\ $ is a positive integer coprime to $\ 15\ $ , there exists a positive integer $\ p\ $ such that $\ \varphi(pm+1)=\varphi(pm+m+1)\ $ , hence we can choose the desired number $\ n\ $ even to be congruent to $\ 1\ $ mod $\ m\ $.

Since some solutions are very large, I consider to also check the cases that $\ m\ $ is not coprime to $\ 15\ $ , for which I sometimes did not find a solution, but maybe just because I gave up too early.

The conjecture is true upto at least $\ m=427\ $