The lonely runner conjecture for integer speed sets

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Let A⊂Z>0A\subset\mathbb{Z}_{>0} be a set of size nn, and let T=R/Z\mathbb{T}=\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}. For t∈Rt\in\mathbb{R}, write ∥t∥\lVert t\rVert for the distance from tt to the nearest integer.

Lonely runner conjecture. There exists x∈Tx\in\mathbb{T} such that

1n+1≤∥ax∥≤1−1n+1\frac{1}{n+1}\leq\lVert ax\rVert\leq1-\frac{1}{n+1}

for every a∈Aa\in A.

This is the formulation of the lonely runner conjecture arising from the paper's study of sets of the form {u,2u,v,2v}\{u,2u,v,2v\}. Its general status is open.

References

Primary source

George Shakan, “On the largest sum-free subset problem in the integers”, arXiv:2207.14210 (2022).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1711.01207.

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