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Ellipsephic harmonic series revisited

Number Theory 2024-03-12 v1

Abstract

Ellipsephic or Kempner-like harmonic series are series of inverses of integers whose expansion in base BB, for some B2B \geq 2, contains no occurrence of some fixed digit or some fixed block of digits. A prototypical example was proposed by Kempner in 1914, namely the sum inverses of integers whose expansion in base 1010 contains no occurrence of a nonzero given digit. Results about such series address their convergence as well as closed expressions for their sums (or approximations thereof). Another direction of research is the study of sums of inverses of integers that contain only a given finite number, say kk, of some digit or some block of digits, and the limits of such sums when kk goes to infinity. Generalizing partial results in the literature, we give a complete result for any digit or block of digits in any base.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2403.05678,
  title  = {Ellipsephic harmonic series revisited},
  author = {Jean-Paul Allouche and Yining Hu and Claude Morin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.05678},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

This paper generalizes arxiv:2305.18180

R2 v1 2026-06-28T15:14:09.699Z