Dyadic nondivisibility conjecture for multiple harmonic sums

Let ll be a positive integer and let sNl{\boldsymbol{s}}\in\mathbb N^l. Define J(s2)J({\boldsymbol{s}}|2) to be the set of nonnegative integers nn for which the numerator of the multiple harmonic sum H(s;n)H({\boldsymbol{s}};n) is divisible by 22. Dyadic nondivisibility conjecture. For every s{\boldsymbol{s}}, one has J(s2)={0}J({\boldsymbol{s}}|2)=\{0\}. This conjecture is motivated by the authors’ explicit dyadic calculations and would imply that no positive-index multiple harmonic sum has an even numerator; it remains open.

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Jianqiang Zhao, “Finiteness of p-Divisible Sets of Multiple Harmonic Sums”, arXiv:math/0303043 (2010).

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