Cyclic systems of simultaneous congruences

DOI10.1142/S1793042110002892MaRDI QIDQ3553696zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jeffrey C. Lagarias

Publication date 21 April 2010

Published in International Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.3954

zbMATH Keywords

congruencesDiophantine equationssimultaneous congruencesSylvester sequence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rational numbers as sums of fractions (11D68) Diophantine equations in many variables (11D72) Congruences in many variables (11D79)

Abstract: This paper considers solutions (x_1, x_2, ..., x_n) to the cyclic system of n simultaneous congruences r (x_1x_2 ...x_n)/x_i = s (mod |x_i|), for fixed nonzero integers r,s with r>0 and gcd(r,s)=1. It shows this system has a finite number of solutions in positive integers x_i >1 having gcd(x_1x_2...x_n, s)=1, obtaining a sharp upper bound on the maximal size of the solutions in many cases. This bound grows doubly-exponentially in n. It shows there are infinitely many such solutions when the positivity restriction is dropped, when r=1, and not otherwise. The problem is reduced to the study of integer solutions of a three parameter family of Diophantine equations r(1/x_1 + 1/x_2 + ...+ 1/x_n)- s/(x_1x_2...x_n) = m, with parameters (r,s,m).

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