Lattice point visibility on generalized lines of sight

DOI10.1080/00029890.2018.1465760zbMATH Open1440.11188arXiv1710.04554OpenAlexW2764196873WikidataQ129425144 ScholiaQ129425144MaRDI QIDQ4577959FDOQ4577959

Authors: Edray Herber Goins, Pamela E. Harris, Bethany Kubik, Aba Mbirika 

Publication date: 6 August 2018

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For a fixed $binmathbbN=1,2,3,ldots$ we say that a point $(r,s)$ in the integer lattice $mathbbZimesmathbbZ$ is $b$-visible from the origin if it lies on the graph of a power function $f(x)=a{x}^b$ with $ainmathbbQ$ and no other integer lattice point lies on this curve (i.e., line of sight) between $(0,0)$ and $(r,s)$. We prove that the proportion of $b$-visible integer lattice points is given by $1/zeta(b+1)$, where $zeta(s)$ denotes the Riemann zeta function. We also show that even though the proportion of $b$-visible lattice points approaches $1$ as $b$ approaches infinity, there exist arbitrarily large rectangular arrays of $b$-invisible lattice points for any fixed $b$. This work specialized to $b=1$ recovers original results from the classical lattice point visibility setting where the lines of sight are given by linear functions with rational slope through the origin.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.04554

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zbMATH Keywords

Riemann zeta function\(b\)-visible integer lattice points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice points in specified regions (11P21) Zeta and (L)-functions: analytic theory (11M99)

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