Generalized nonintegrality conjecture for reciprocal power sums
Generalized nonintegrality conjecture for reciprocal power sums
Let be a nonzero polynomial with integer coefficients and let be an infinite sequence of positive integers, not necessarily increasing or distinct. For each , write , and for define
where , is in increasing order, and
Generalized nonintegrality conjecture. There is a positive integer such that for every integer and every integer with , neither nor is an integer.
This conjecture generalizes the two earlier conjectures cited in the source and extends the nonintegrality problem to arbitrary nonzero integer polynomials and arbitrary positive-integer exponent sequences. Its status is not established in the supplied text.
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Junyong Zhao, Shaofang Hong and Xiao Jiang, “A certain reciprocal power sum is never an integer”, arXiv:1812.08705 (2018).
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