Amending the Lonely Runner Spectrum Conjecture
Number Theory
2026-05-06 v2 Combinatorics
Abstract
Let be the absolute distance from to the nearest integer. For a set of distinct positive integral speeds , we define its maximum loneliness, also known as the gap , to be The Loneliness Spectrum Conjecture, recently proposed by Kravitz (2021), asserts that We disprove the Loneliness Spectrum Conjecture for with an infinite family of counterexamples and propose an alternative conjecture. We confirm the amended conjecture for whenever there exists a pair of speeds with a common factor of at least and also prove some related results.
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@article{arxiv.2306.10417,
title = {Amending the Lonely Runner Spectrum Conjecture},
author = {Ho Tin Fan and Alec Sun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.10417},
year = {2026}
}
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23 pages