Eswarathasan–Levine conjecture on the finiteness of divisible harmonic numbers
Eswarathasan–Levine conjecture on the finiteness of divisible harmonic numbers
Let be the th harmonic number. For a prime , let denote the -adic valuation of , and define
Thus, consists of those for which divides the numerator of in lowest terms.
Eswarathasan–Levine conjecture. The set is finite for all primes .
Eswarathasan and Levine computed for and found it finite in each case. Boyd later established finiteness for all primes , apart from possibly ; the general conjecture remains open.
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Leonardo Carofiglio, Giacomo Cherubini and Alessandro Gambini, “On Eswarathasan–Levine and Boyd's conjectures for harmonic numbers”, arXiv:2503.15714 (2025).
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