Eleven, twelve, and thirteen lonely runners
Combinatorics
2026-04-28 v1 Discrete Mathematics
Number Theory
Abstract
Wills conjectured that, for any non-zero integers , there is a real number such that, for all , where is the distance from to the closest integer. This statement is known as the Lonely Runner Conjecture. A computational method developed by Rosenfeld and the second author verified the conjecture for . We further refine this method with new sieving techniques and employ a polynomial method argument to show that any with satisfies the conjecture when and are both odd primes. Ultimately, we provide a computer-assisted proof of the Lonely Runner Conjecture for .
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@article{arxiv.2604.23906,
title = {Eleven, twelve, and thirteen lonely runners},
author = {Touch Sungkawichai and Tanupat Trakulthongchai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.23906},
year = {2026}
}