Spencer's Single Lonely Runner Conjecture
Spencer's Single Lonely Runner Conjecture
Let be an -set of pairwise distinct real speeds, and let denote the distance from to the nearest integer. Single Lonely Runner Conjecture. For every and every such , there exist and such that
This weakening, attributed to Joel Spencer, asks only for one runner to become lonely rather than requiring the assertion for every runner. It is presented as an open problem in the survey.
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Primary source
Guillem Perarnau and Oriol Serra, “The Lonely Runner Conjecture turns 60”, arXiv:2409.20160 (2025).
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