Gaps between totients
Number Theory
2022-07-05 v1
Abstract
We study the set D of positive integers d for which the equation has infinitely many solution pairs (a,b), where is Euler's totient function. We show that the minumum of D is at most 154, exhibit a specific A so that every multiple of A is in D, and show that any progression a mod d with 4|a and 4|d, contains infinitely many elements of D. We also show that the Generalized Elliott-Halberstam Conjecture, as defined in [6], implies that D equals the set of all positive, even integers.
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@article{arxiv.2007.05771,
title = {Gaps between totients},
author = {Kevin Ford and Sergei Konyagin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.05771},
year = {2022}
}
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7 pages