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Elemental Patterns from the Erd\H{o}s Straus Conjecture

Number Theory 2024-03-26 v1

Abstract

This paper makes the following conjecture: For every prime pp there exists a positive integer xx with p4xp2\left\lceil \frac{p}{4} \right\rceil \leq x \leq \left\lceil \frac{p}{2} \right\rceil and a positive divisor dx2d|x^2 so that either: (1) dmod(4xp)px d \bmod \left( 4x - p \right) \equiv -px; or (2) dxd \leq x and dmod(4xp)x d \bmod \left( 4x - p \right) \equiv -x. Furthermore this paper proves that the solutions to these modular equations are in one-to-one correspondence with the solutions of the diophantine equation used in the Erd\H{o}s Straus conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.2403.16047,
  title  = {Elemental Patterns from the Erd\H{o}s Straus Conjecture},
  author = {Kyle Bradford},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.16047},
  year   = {2024}
}
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