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Elementary Proof of Lehmer's Conjecture on Non-vanishing of Tau Function

Number Theory 2016-06-20 v2

Abstract

In this paper we prove Lehmer's conjecture on Ramanujan's tau function, namely tau(n) not equal to zero for n >= 1 by investigating the additive group structure attached to tau(n) with the aid of the pigeonhole principle and unique factorization theorem.

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@article{arxiv.1506.02098,
  title  = {Elementary Proof of Lehmer's Conjecture on Non-vanishing of Tau Function},
  author = {Will Y. Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.02098},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

The proof for Lemma 2 and Lemma 4 turned out to be false