On the gaps in multiplicatively closed sets generated by at most two elements

DOI10.1007/S12044-019-0486-8MaRDI QIDQ2422802zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. P. Anil Kumar

Publication date 21 June 2019

Published in Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences. Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03721

zbMATH Keywords

gapsmultiplicatively closed setslog-rationalityWeyl-equidistributive criterion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic progressions (11B25) Distribution of integers with specified multiplicative constraints (11N25) Density, gaps, topology (11B05) Distribution of integers in special residue classes (11N69)

Abstract: We prove in Theorem $2.2$ that the multiplicatively closed subset generated by at most two elements in the set of natural numbers $mathbbN$ has arbitrarily large gaps by explicitly constructing large integer intervals with known prime factorization for the end points, which do not contain any element from the multiplicatively closed set apart from the end points, which belong to the multiplicatively closed set. An Example $4.6$ is also illustrated. We also give a criterion in Theorems $7.8,7.12$ by using a geometric correspondence between maximal singly generated multiplicatively closed sets and points of the space $mathbb{PF}_{mathbbQgeq0}^{infty}$ (refer to Theorem $7.5$) as to when a finitely generated multiplicatively closed set gives rise to a doubly multiplicatively closed line (refer to Definition $7.4$). We answer a similar Question $5.1$ partially about gaps in a multiply-generated multiplicative closed set, when it is contained in a doubly multiplicative closed set using Theorem $7.8$ and Theorem $7.17$. In the appendix Section $8$ we discuss another constructive proof (refer to Theorem $8.6$) for arbitrarily large gap intervals, where the prime factorization is not known for the right end-point unlike the constructive proof of the main result of the article in the case of multiplicatively closed set $p_1^i{p}_2^{j}midi,jinmathbbNcup0$ with $p_1<p_2,Lo{g}_{p_1}(p_2)$ irrational for which the prime factorization is known for both the end-points of the gap interval via the stabilization sequence of the irrational $frac1Lo{g}_{p_1}(p_2)$.

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