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.
References
Primary source
Junyong Zhao, Shaofang Hong and Xiao Jiang, “A certain reciprocal power sum is never an integer”, arXiv:1812.08705 (2018).
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