The Loneliness Spectrum Conjecture
The Loneliness Spectrum Conjecture
Let be positive integers, and let
where denotes the absolute distance from to the nearest integer. The Loneliness Spectrum Conjecture. One has either
or
This conjecture refines the Lonely Runner Conjecture by describing the possible values below . Kravitz proved it for , but the paper gives counterexamples for and , so the conjecture is refuted.
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Primary source
Ho Tin Fan and Alec Sun, “Amending the Lonely Runner Spectrum Conjecture”, arXiv:2306.10417 (2026).
Additional references
2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2019–2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1912.06034.
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