Generalized lattice-point visibility in N^k

Abstract: It is a well-known result that the proportion of lattice points visible from the origin is given by

f r a c 1 z e t a (2)

, where

z e t a (s) = s u m_{n = 1}^{i} n f t y f r a c 1 n^{s}

denotes the Riemann zeta function. Goins, Harris, Kubik and Mbirika, generalized the notion of lattice point visibility by saying that for a fixed

b i n m a t h b b N

, a lattice point

(r, s) i n m a t h b b N^{2}

is

b

-visible from the origin if no other lattice point lies on the graph of a function

f (x) = m x^{b}

, for some

m i n m a t h b b Q

, between the origin and

(r, s)

. In their analysis they establish that for a fixed

b i n m a t h b b N

, the proportion of

b

-visible lattice points is

f r a c 1 z e t a (b + 1)

, which generalizes the result in the classical lattice point visibility setting. In this short note we give an

n

-dimensional notion of

-visibility that recovers the one presented by Goins et. al. in

2

-dimensions, and the classical notion in

n

-dimensions. We prove that for a fixed

the proportion of

-visible lattice points is given by

f r a c 1 z e t a (s u m_{i = 1}^{n} b_{i})

. Moreover, we propose a

-visibility notion for vectors

, and we show that by imposing weak conditions on those vectors one obtains that the density of

-visible points is

f r a c 1 z e t a (s u m_{i = 1}^{n} b_{i})

. Finally, we give a notion of visibility for vectors

, compatible with the previous notion, that recovers the results of Harris and Omar for

b i n m a t h b b Q^{*}

in

2

-dimensions; and show that the proportion of

-visible points in this case only depends on the negative entries of

.

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