On a problem of Erdős and Graham (Q5905415)

Let \(m(\ell)=\min\{n_ i:1=\sum^ \ell_{i=1}1/n_ i\), \(n_ 1<n_ 2<\cdots<n_ \ell\}\), where the minimum ranges over all sets \(\{n_ i\}\) of positive integers. The author proves that there exists an increasing sequence of integers \(\{\ell_ k\}\) such that \(m(\ell_ k)/\ell_ k\leq(\log\log\ell_ k)^ 3\) which improves Erdős and Graham's result \(m(\ell_ k)/\ell_ k\geq(\log\ell_ k)^ 2\).