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On the integrality of the elementary symmetric functions of $1, 1/3, ..., 1/(2n-1)$

Authors :
Wang, Chunlin
Hong, Shaofang
Publication Year :
2011

Abstract

Erdos and Niven proved that for any positive integers $m$ and $d$, there are only finitely many positive integers $n$ for which one or more of the elementary symmetric functions of $1/m,1/(m+d), ..., 1/(m+nd)$ are integers. Recently, Chen and Tang proved that if $n\ge 4$, then none of the elementary symmetric functions of $1,1/2, ..., 1/n$ is an integer. In this paper, we show that if $n\ge 2$, then none of the elementary symmetric functions of $1, 1/3, ..., 1/(2n-1)$ is an integer.<br />Comment: 7 pages

Subjects

Subjects :
Mathematics - Number Theory

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1112.0853
Document Type :
Working Paper