Lattice point visibility on generalized lines of sight

DOI10.1080/00029890.2018.1465760MaRDI QIDQ4577959zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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)

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

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)

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.

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