On a nonintegrality conjecture

DOI10.1007/S40879-021-00507-3MaRDI QIDQ2147392zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Florian Luca, Carl Pomerance

Publication date 20 June 2022

Published in European Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.08275

zbMATH Keywords

binomial sumprimes in short intervalsnonintegrality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic results on arithmetic functions (11N37)

Abstract: It is conjectured that the sum ${\displaystyle }$ S_r(n)=sum_{k=1}^{n} frac{k}{k+r}�inom{n}{k} ${\displaystyle }$ for positive integers $r,n$ is never integral. This has been shown for $rle22$. In this note we study the problem in the ``$n$ aspect" showing that the set of $n$ such that $S_r(n)inmathbbZ$ for some $rge1$ has asymptotic density $0$. Our principal tools are some deep results on the distribution of primes in short intervals.

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