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Finiteness of solutions to linear Diophantine equations on Piatetski-Shapiro sequences

Number Theory 2025-09-11 v2

Abstract

A sequence of integers of the form nα\lfloor n^{\alpha}\rfloor (n=1,2,)(n=1,2,\ldots) for some fixed non-integral α>1\alpha>1 is called a Piatetski-Shapiro sequence, where x\lfloor x\rfloor denotes the integer part of xx. Let PS(α)\mathrm{PS}(\alpha) denote the set of all those terms. In this article, we show that x+y=zx+y=z has only finitely many solutions (x,y,z)PS(α)3(x,y,z)\in \mathrm{PS}(\alpha)^3 for almost every α>3\alpha>3. Furthermore, we show that PS(α)\mathrm{PS}(\alpha) has only finitely many arithmetic progressions of length 33 for almost every α>10\alpha>10. In addition, we estimate upper bounds for the Hausdorff dimension of the set of α[s,t]\alpha\in [s,t] such that y=a1x1++anxny=a_1x_1+\cdots +a_nx_n has infinitely many solutions on PS(α)\mathrm{PS}(\alpha).

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@article{arxiv.2306.17813,
  title  = {Finiteness of solutions to linear Diophantine equations on Piatetski-Shapiro sequences},
  author = {Kota Saito},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.17813},
  year   = {2025}
}

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