The conjecture that bounded-above Lüroth sets with digits 3 and 4 cover modulo 1

Let LkL_{\leq k} denote the Lüroth set whose digits are at most kk, for kN{1}k\in\mathbb{N}\setminus\{1\}. For subsets of R\mathbb{R}, write A+B={a+b:aA,bB}A+B=\{a+b:a\in A,b\in B\}, and write ARmod1A\equiv\mathbb{R}\mod 1 when A+Z=RA+\mathbb{Z}=\mathbb{R}. The conjecture.

L3+L4Rmod1.L_{\leq 3}+L_{\leq 4}\equiv\mathbb{R}\mod 1.

Theorem 1 establishes the analogous covering results for L3+L5L_{\leq 3}+L_{\leq 5}, L4+L4L_{\leq 4}+L_{\leq 4}, and three copies of L3L_{\leq 3}, but does not determine this mixed two-set case. Numerical clustering suggests that L3+L4L_{\leq 3}+L_{\leq 4} may contain an interval such as [1,2][1,2].

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Maiken Gravgaard and Ying Wai Lee, “Decomposition of real numbers into sums of Lüroth sets”, arXiv:2506.12513 (2026).

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